John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5612 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5612 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it?—No! ’t was but the wind, Or the car rattling o’er the stony street. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 22. |