George Gordon Byron – Quotes

It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale’s high note is heard.
It is the hour when lovers’ vows
Seem sweet in every whisper’d word.
And gentle winds and waters near
Make music to the lonely ear.
Each flower the dews have lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met:
And on the wave is deeper blue,
And on the leaf a browner hue,
And in the Heaven, that clear obscure
So softly dark and darkly pure,
That follows the decline of day
As twilight melts beneath the moon away.

In thee, I fondly hop'd to clasp
A friend, whom death alone could sever
But envy with malignant grasp,
Has torn thee from my breast for ever.