So, we'll go no more a roving So, we'll go no more a roving "So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by (George Gordon) Lord Byron (1788–1824), 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 the fatigue of age conquering the restlessness of youth. Byron wrote the poem at the age of twenty-nine. In the letter to Thomas Moore, the poem is preceded by an account of its genesis. "At present, I am on the invalid regimen myself. The Carnival--that is,
James Orr (poet) stare While out, in boats, we bustle: Creatures wha ne’er had seen a black, Fu’ scar’t took to their shankies; Sae, wi’ our best rags on our back, We mixt amang the Yankies, An’ skail’t, that day </poem> James Orr (poet) James Orr (1770 – 24 April 1816), known as the "Bard of Ballycarry", was a poet or "rhyming weaver" from Ballycarry, Co. Antrim in the province of Ulster in Ireland, who wrote in English and Ulster Scots. He was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns. According to that other great Ulster