Explication of Lord Byron’s “She Walks In Beauty” Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, or Lord Byron as he preferred to be called, was a known philanderer with an insatiable appetite. In letters to Percy Shelley, he told of short-lived romances with women he claimed did not understand the wants and needs of men. One of these women was Lady Caroline Lamb, who he found only physically attractive, and soon grew tired of her because she was “ridiculously overpassionate”. Later in his life, he took to referring to such women as "Carolinish." In his twenties, there were rumors that Lord Byron went as far as courting his sister