Will Go No More a Roving?

"So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by Lord Byron, and included in a letter to Thomas Moore on 28 February 1817. Moore published the poem in 1830 as part of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. It evocatively describes how the youth at that time wanted to do something different.

Why did Byron write so we'll go no more a roving?

(Byron would, in fact, die just seven years later.) By saying "we'll go no more a roving," he could be saying his life is drawing to a close, that the time for play is over, and that he must prepare for old age and death. There's a "we," so it's possible the speaker is talking to somebody else (a buddy, a girlfriend).

What does the poem when we two parted mean?

A brief lyric consisting of four short stanzas, "When We Two Parted" is a poem about grief and regret in which the first-person speaker mourns not only the loss of a romantic relationship, but also a loss of innocence. From the present tense, the poem looks back in time, to when the affair was ended.