Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Cornelian Comments
Rating: ★2.9
No specious splendour of this stone
Endears it to my memory ever;
With lustre only once it shone,
And blushes modest as the giver.
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7/25/2025 6:39:50 PM # 1.0.0
The context of this poem is that Byron, while at Trinity, had formed a romantic relationship with John Edleston, a choirboy, who, after Byron allegedly saved his life, gave Byron a carnelian.