First linesLord Byron

  1. Ah!⁠—What should follow slips from my reflection; Canto XV
  2. Bob Southey! You’re a poet⁠—Poet-laureate, Dedication
  3. Hail, Muse! et cetera.⁠—We left Juan sleeping, Canto III
  4. I now mean to be serious;⁠—it is time, Canto XIII
  5. I want a hero: an uncommon want, Canto I
  6. I would to Heaven that I were so much clay, Fragment on the Back of the MS. of Canto I
  7. If from great Nature’s or our own abyss Canto XIV
  8. Nothing so difficult as a beginning Canto IV
  9. O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly Canto VII
  10. Of all the barbarous middle ages, that Canto XII
  11. Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Canto II
  12. Oh, blood and thunder! and oh, blood and wounds! Canto VIII
  13. Oh, Wellington! (or “Villainton”⁠—for Fame Canto IX
  14. The antique Persians taught three useful things, Canto XVI
  15. The world is full of orphans: firstly, those Canto XVII
  16. “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Canto VI
  17. When amatory poets sing their loves Canto V
  18. When Bishop Berkeley said “there was no matter,” Canto XI
  19. When Newton saw an apple fall, he found Canto X

All poets.