Born, London
Died, Missolonghi, Greece.

January 22, 1788
April 19, 1824

The present selection of Byron's poems was first published in The World's Classics' in 1913 and reprinted in 1923

PRINTED IN ENGLAND

AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

BY FREDERICK HALL

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CONTENTS

Lachin y Gair .

When we Two parted

Well! thou art happy

Fill the Goblet again.

A Song

Lines to Mr. Hodgson. Written on board the

Lisbon Packet

Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulf

Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos

Maid of Athens, ere we part

One Struggle more, and I am free

Euthanasia. 'When Time'

And thou art dead, as young and fair

If sometimes in the Haunts of Men

Lines to a Lady weeping

Remember him whom Passion's Power

Sonnet, to Genevra.

Sonnet, to the Same

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Stanzas for Music. I speak not, I trace not'

To Belshazzar.

HEBREW MELODIES:

She walks in Beauty

The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept

If that high World

The wild Gazelle

Oh! weep for those

On Jordan's Banks

Jephtha's Daughter

Oh! snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom

My Soul is dark

I saw thee weep

Thy Days are done

Saul

Song of Saul before his last Battle

HEBREW MELODIES (continued):

All is Vanity, saith the Preacher'

When Coldness wraps this suffering Clay

Vision of Belshazzar

Sun of the Sleepless!

Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be

Herod's Lament for Mariamne

On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by

Titus

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By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept

The Destruction of Sennacherib

A Spirit pass'd before me.

From Job

Stanzas for Music.

Daughters'

Stanzas for Music.

can give '

Ode from the French.

Waterloo !'

Napoleon's Farewell.

'There be none of Beauty's

There's not a Joy the World

We do not curse thee,

DOMESTIC PIECES. 1816:

Fare thee Well

Endorsement to the Deed of Separation. In the

April of 1816

Stanzas to Augusta.

and dark'.

Stanzas to Augusta.

Destiny 's over '

Epistle to Augusta.

Sister if a Name'

The Dream

Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was Ill.

Darkness

Prometheus

A Fragment.

Stanzas for Music.

Soul!'

From the French

Stanzas for Music.

Happiness'

;

When all around grew drear

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Though the Day of my

Could I remount

My Sister! my sweet

'Bright be the Place of thy

They say that Hope is

DOMESTIC PIECES.

So, we'll go no more a roving

?

To Thomas Moore. 'What are you doing now

To Thomas Moore. 'My Boat is on the Shore

Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori

Strahan, Tonson'

To Mr. Murray.

Ode on Venice.

Stanzas to the Po

Sonnet to the Prince Regent, on the Repeal of

Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture

Stanzas. Could Love for ever'

On my Wedding-Day

Epitaph for William Pitt

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Stanzas. When a Man hath no Freedom to fight

for at home'

Epigram. The World is a Bundle of Hay'

The Charity Ball

Epigram on the Braziers' Company

Epigram on my Wedding-Day

On my thirty-third Birthday

Epigrams on Lord Castlereagh

John Keats

To Mr. Murray.

grave'

The Irish Avatar

Stanzas written on the Road between Florence

and Pisa

•

Stanzas inscribed-On this day I complete my

Thirty-sixth Year'

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1816 (continued):

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Parnassus
To Inez

ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS

TO ATHENS: From 'THE CURSE OF MINERVA '

THE VISION OF JUDGMENT

From CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE':

CANTO I:

For Orford and for Walde-

To Ianthe

Childe Harold

Childe Harold's Departure

From 'CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE' (continued):

CANTO II:

Immortality.

Sappho

Greece

Bereavement

CANTO III:

On leaving England

Consolation

Waterloo

Napoleon

The Drachenfels

Nature the Consoler

Lake of Geneva

Clarens

Gibbon and Voltaire

I have not loved the World

CANTO IV:

Venice

An August Evening in Italy

Petrarch

Italy

Clitumnus

Terni

The Apennines, and Horace

Rome

Freedom

Tomb of Cecilia Metella

Grotto of Egeria

The Coliseum

Death of the Princess Charlotte

'I love not Man the less, but Nature more

MAZEPPA

From 'THE GIAOUR'

From THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS':

'Know ye the land'

The Hellespont

From 'THE CORSAIR'

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON.

Sonnet on Chillon

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