Lord Byron and When we two parted

When We Two Parted
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow--
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me--
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee so well--
Long, long I shall rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.
In secret we met--
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive
If I should meet thee
After long years,

How should I greet thee?--
With silence and tears.
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Khi đôi ta chia tay
Lệ tuôn rơi lặng lẽ
Nửa con tim tan vỡ
Chia xa đến vạn năm
Tái nhợt đôi má hồng
Nụ hôn em lạnh lẽo
Sự thật này báo trước
Nỗi đau chẳng từ ai
Sương lạnh buổi sáng mai
Thấm lạnh bờ mi cay
Phải chăng điềm cảnh báo
Làm tim anh run sợ
Lời thề em quên mất
Để chạy theo danh vọng
Anh nhắc tên em yêu
Mà nghe thẹn thùng thế
Ai kia gọi tên em
Như tiếng chuông bên tai
Làm run rẩy lòng anh
Vì sao lại là em?
Họ không biết một điều
Anh biết em nhiều vậy
Mãi hoài anh tiếc nuối
Sâu lắng chẳng nên lời
Âm thầm ta gặp gỡ
Anh lặng lẽ buồn đau
Tim em vô tình quá

Hồn em sao gian dối
Nếu anh gặp lại em
Sau chừng ấy năm dài
Anh chào em thế nào?
Lặng im lệ sầu rơi.
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Lord Byron
(1788 - 1824)
George Gordon Byron was born January 22, 1788 in Dover,
England, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was
an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
Byron was the son of Captain John 'Mad Jack' Byron and his third
wife, the former Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat
hysterical woman in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Byron's paternal
grandparents were Vice-Admiral The Hon., John 'Foulweather Jack'
Byron and Sophia Trevanion. Vice Admiral John Byron had
circumnavigated the globe, and was the younger brother of the 5th
Baron Byron, known as "the Wicked Lord".
He was christened George Gordon Byron at St Marylebone Parish Church after his maternal
grandfather, George Gordon of Gight, a descendant of King James I. This grandfather
committed suicide in 1779.
Byron's mother Catherine had to sell her land and title to pay her husband's debts. John Byron may
have married Catherine for her money and, after squandering her fortune
and selling her estate, having spent very little time with his wife and
child in order to avoid creditors, he deserted them both and died a year
later. Catherine regularly experienced mood swings and bouts of
melancholy.
Catherin Gordon, mother’s Byron
Shortly thereafter Catherin took Byron back to Scotland and raised him in Aberdeen. On 21 May
1798, the death of Byron's great-uncle, the "wicked" Lord Byron, made the 10-year-old the 6th

Baron Byron, and the young man then inherited both title and estate, Newstead Abbey, in
Nottinghamshire, England. His mother proudly took him to England. Byron lived at his estate
infrequently, as the Abbey was rented to Lord Grey de Ruthyn, among others, during Byron's
adolescence.
In August 1799, Byron entered the school of William Glennie, an Aberdonian in Dulwich.Byron
received his early formal education at Aberdeen Grammar School. In 1801 he was sent to Harrow.
In 1802, when Byron lived with his mother at Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, with
the help of Elizabeth Pigot, who copied many of his rough drafts, he wrote first volumes of poetry.
Fugitive Pieces was printed by Ridge of Newark.
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In September, 1803, he refused to Harrow because of his love for Chaworth, who is portrayed as
the first object of his adult sexual feelings in his memoirs.
In January, 1804, Byron returned to Harrow, to a more settled period which saw the formation of a
circle of emotional involvements with other Harrow boys, which he recalled with great vividness.
Childish Recollections (1806) was nostalgic poems about his Harrow friendship.
In 1805, Byron entered Trinity College where he met and formed a close friendship with the
younger John Edleston. And then in his memory Byron composed Thyrza, a series of elegies.
In 1807, it appeared Byron's first collection of poetry, Hours of Idleness, which collected many of
the previous poems, along with more recent compositions, was the culminating book.
In 1808, he had planned to spend cruising with his cousin George Bettesworth, but Bettesworth's
unfortunate death at the Battle of Alvoen in May 1808 made that impossible.
In 1809, he took up his seat in the House of Lords on 13 March, but left London on 11 Jun 1809
for the Continent
From 1809 to 1811, he set out on his grand tour, visiting Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece, and the
Aegean.
In 1812, Byron embarked on a well-publicized affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that
shocked the British public. However, when Byron published the first two cantos of Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage, they were received with acclaim. He followed up his success with the
poem's last two cantos, as well as four equally celebrated Oriental Tales, The Giaour, The Bride
of Abydos, . He became an adored character of London society; he spoke in the House of Lords

effectively on liberal themes, and had a hectic love-affair with Lady Caroline Lamb.
During the summer of 1813 Byron apparently entered into a more than brotherly relationship with
his half-sister Augusta Leigh. In 1814 Augusta gave birth to a daughter, who was generally
supposed to be Byron's. In the same year he wrote 'Lara,' a poem about a mystical hero, aloof and
alien, whose identity is gradually revealed and who dies after a feud in the arms of his page. The
Corsair (1814) Lara, a Tale (1814), sold 10,000 copies on the first day of publication.
In 1815, Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke and their daughter Ada was born in the same year.
The marriage was unhappy, and they obtained legal separation next year. At that time he wrote
Hebrew Melodies (1815).
Throughout his life, he fathered several illegitimate children and had numerous scandalous affairs,
the most notorious being with his half-sister Augusta, his father's daughter by an earlier
marriage. In 1816, he left London, never to return, to come to stay with the Shelleys in Geneva,
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where he wrote The Prisoner of Chillon, The Siege of Corinth(1816), Parisina (1816),The
Dream (1816),Prometheus (1816),Darkness (1816.
In 1917, he journeyed to Rome. On returning to Venice, he wrote the fourth canto of Childe
Harold. About the same time he sold Newstead and published Manfred, Cain and The Deformed
Transformed. The first five cantos of Don Juan were written between 1818 and 1820, during
which period he made the acquaintance of the young Countess Guiccioli, who found her first love
in Byron, who in turn asked her to elope with him. In 1818,he wrote Beppo his first work in a new
ironic style and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818).
From 1821 to 1822, he finished Cantos 6–12 of Don Juan at Pisa, and in the same year he joined
with Leigh Hunt and Percy Bysshe Shelleyin starting a short-lived newspaper, The Liberal, in the
first number of which appeared The Vision of Judgment. And in 1822, his daughter Allegra died
aged five of a fever in Bagna Cavallo, Italy while Byron was in Pisa. He had Allegra's body sent
back to England to be buried at his old school, Harrow, because Protestants could not be buried in
consecrated ground in Catholic countries. When Byron's mother-in-law, Judith Noel died in 1822,
her will required that he change his surname to "Noel" in order to inherit half her estate. And then
he also sometimes referred to as "Lord Noel Byron", as if "Noel" were part of his title.
Fired by the Greek battle for independence from Turkey, Byron sailed to Missolonghi in 1824,

where he gave money and inspiration to the rebels but died of a fever on 19 April before seeing
action.
Before Byron’s death, it was a shock in Britain. The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he
became a hero. The national poet of Greece, Dionysius Solomon, wrote a poem about the
unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. He was the most notorious Romantic poet
and satirist. Byron was famous in his lifetime for his love affairs with women and Mediterranean
boys. He created his own cult of personality, the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant,
melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable in his past. Byron's influence
on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was
widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries.

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