Time & Brevity
On My Thirty-Third Birthday
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Time & Brevity
Through Life's dull road, so dim and dirty,
I have dragged to three-and-thirty.
What have these years left to me?
Nothing--except thirty-three.
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Codex Note
January 22, 1821. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 414.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On My Thirty-Third Birthday.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/254/.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “On My Thirty-Third Birthday.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/254/.
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