Date: 1746
Yet the kind source of every gentle art, / And all the soft civility of life: / Raiser of human kind! by Nature cast, / Naked, and helpless, out amid the woods / And wilds, to rude inclement elements; / With various seeds of art deep in the mind / Implanted, and profusely pour'd around / Material...
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Date: 1748
"But more he search'd the mind, and roused from sleep / Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap."
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Date: 1818
"Watering the heart whose early flowers have died, / And with a fresher growth replenishing the void."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)