Ocupation: Baron Byron
Life: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Birthday: January 22
Death: April 19
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics
topic: Love, Turtles, Land, Cypresses, Myrtle, Madden