So We'Ll Go No More A-Roving Poem by George Gordon Byron

So We'Ll Go No More A-Roving

Rating: 3.5


So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart still be as loving,
And the moon still be as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul outwears the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 05 June 2016

This poem alone would have established Lord Byron as a great poet. The wholeness, the imagery, the rhyming, the rhythm of this is dazzling, staggering, amazing. It is truly perfect in every way. And it sinks deep into your memory where it will stay a lifetime.

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all about love and life in a timeless poem...

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Savita Tyagi 24 August 2014

Such a lovely poem. Love, beauty, changing time all packed in here.

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Douglas Richmond 13 September 2014

This is the first poem that ever had any real effect on me. So much is said in so few lines.

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 23 August 2014

Beauty has been define by the Poet with the help of beauty, but physical love in close compartment is insisted more than the nature lovely write

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MAHTAB BANGALEE 13 November 2022

Night is made for rest and day for activeness all; nice to read the poetic gist

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David Wood 12 November 2022

One of Byron's greatest and timeless poems, still fresh after all these years and changing attitudes.

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Mahtab Bangalee 22 January 2020

Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon. /// LOVE THERE LIVES IN THE WOMB OF BEAUTIFUL POETIC WORDS; EVERY LOVING POETIC EXPRESSION

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Hazel wyld 17 February 2018

This woman murders every poem she reads dreadful I could do it better as love poetry

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Yolandey Share 30 November 2017

Hi nice words very passionate wow don't have words to express it

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