Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Lord Byron

⏱ 8 minEpic & myth

The poem that made Byron famous overnight: a world-weary young wanderer turns his back on empty pleasure and journeys across a Europe scarred by war -- Spain, Greece, Waterloo, the Alps, and above all Rome and the sea -- in stately stanzas brooding on liberty, ruin, and the grandeur of nature. 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean.'

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