“There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods” is a poem by the English poet George Gordon Byron, also known as Lord Byron. It’s part of a long narrative poem called “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” that was published in 1812.
The speaker in this poem describes their appreciation for nature and solitude. They find pleasure in walking on paths where no one has walked before. Read an analysis of this poem at PoemAnalysis.
In the popular period drama Bridgerton the character Anthony Bridgerton recites two lines from this poem in episode 2, season 2.
There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods
Poem by Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
