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Lord Byron

Famous, scandalous, dead at 36. When We Two Parted is about a real affair he could not talk about.

Lord ByronPercy Bysshe ShelleyRobert BrowningElizabeth Barrett BrowningThomas HardyCharlotte MewC. Day-LewisCharles CausleySeamus HeaneySimon ArmitageCarol Ann DuffyOwen SheersMaura DooleyDaljit NagraAndrew Waterhouse

The quotes

3 quotes by or about Lord Byron, in the order they happen.

In silence and tears

Byron · When We Two Parted · romantic love · loss

How they split up. The poem starts and ends on these words. Nothing was said. Everything was felt.

Half broken-hearted

Byron · When We Two Parted · romantic love · loss

Only half. He is angry as well as sad. She got over it. He did not.

They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear

Byron · When We Two Parted · loss · romantic love

Hearing her name is like a funeral bell.

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