All for Love - Lord Byron (Poetry reading by Jordan Harling) | Jordan Harling Reads

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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):

O talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled?
'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:
Then away with all such from the head that is hoary—
What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory?

O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

There chiefly I sought thee, there only I found thee;
Her glance was the best of the rays that surround thee;
When it sparkled o'er aught that was bright in my story,
I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory.

All for Love - written by Lord Byron
Narrated by Jordan Harling

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Background music:

https://musopen.org/music/3847/felix-mendelssohn/elijah-op70/

Elijah, Op.70 - Draw near, all ye people - composed by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by Matthew Hughes, available from https://musopen.org/ (CC BY 3.0)

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Author image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGeorge_Gordon_Byron%2C_6th_Baron_Byron_by_Richard_Westall_(2).jpg

Richard Westall [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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