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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

CONTENTS

PAGE

Lachin y Gair .

1

When we Two parted

2

Well! thou art happy

3

Fill the Goblet again. A Song

Lines to Mr. Hodgson. Written on board the

Lisbon Packet

5

Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulf

Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos

8

Maid of Athens, ere we part

9

One Struggle more, and I am free

10

Euthanasia. “When Time'

11

And thou art dead, as young and fair

13

If sometimes in the Haunts of Men

15

Lines to a Lady weeping

16

Remember him whom Passion's Power

16

Sonnet, to Genevra.

18

Sonnet, to the Same

18

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

19

Stanzas for Music. I speak not, I trace not' 24

To Belshazzar .

25

26

27

27

28

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

29

29

30

30

31

32

32

33

34

HEBREW MELODIES (continued):

PAGE

All is Vanity, saith the Preacher'

34

When Coldness wraps this suffering Clay

35

Vision of Belshazzar

36

Sun of the Sleepless !

38

Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be 38

Herod's Lament for Mariamne

39

On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by

Titus

39

By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept

The Destruction of Sennacherib

A Spirit pass'd before me.

From Job

42

40

41

42

43

44

47

48

Stanzas for Music. “There be none of Beauty's

Daughters'

Stanzas for Music. "There's not a Joy the World

can give'

Ode from the French. We do not curse thee,

Waterloo !'

Napoleon's Farewell. From the French

DOMESTIC PIECES. 1816:

Fare thee Well

Endorsement to the Deed of Separation. In the

April of 1816

Stanzas to Augusta.

all around

grew

drear

and dark '.

Stanzas to Augusta: Though the Day of my

Destiny's over

Epistle to Augusta. • My Sister !

Sister ! if a Name'

The Dream

Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was Ill

50

· When

50

52

my sweet

53

57

63

64

67

68

Darkness

Prometheus

A Fragment.

i

Could I remount'

Stanzas for Music. Bright be the Place of thy

Soul!'

Stanzas for Music.' They say that Hope is

Happiness

69

70

84

DOMESTIC PIECES. 1816 (continued):

PAGE

So, we'll go no more a roving

70

To Thomas Moore. What are you doing now? 71

To Thomas Moore. “My Boat is on the Shore 71

Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori

72

To Mr. Murray. Strahan, Tonson'

74

Ode on Venice.

75

Stanzas to the Po

79

Sonnet to the Prince Regent, on the Repeal of

Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture

81

Stanzas. Could Love for ever'

82

On my Wedding Day

84

Epitaph for William Pitt

Stanzas. When a Man hath no Freedom to fight

for at home'

85

Epigram. The World is a Bundle of Hay 85

The Charity Ball

85

Epigram on the Braziers' Company

85

Epigram on my Wedding Day

86

On my thirty-third Birthday

86

Epigrams on Lord Castlereagh

86

John Keats

86

To Mr. Murray. For Orford and for Walde-

grave'

87

The Irish Avatar

87

Stanzas written on the Road between Florence

and Pisa

92

Stanzas inscribed On this day I complete my

Thirty-sixth Year'

92

From CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE':

CANTO I:

To Ianthe

Childe Harold

Childe Harold's Departure

Parnassus

To Inez

152

153

156

159

160

.

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

CANTO II :

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Immortality.

161

Sappho

163

Greece

164

Bereavement

168

CANTO III:

On leaving England

168

Consolation

169

Waterloo

170

Napoleon

173

The Drachenfels

175

Nature the Consoler

176

Lake of Geneva

179

Clarens

181

Gibbon and Voltaire

183

I have not loved the World

184

CANTO IV:

Venice

185

An August Evening in Italy

188

Petrarch

189

Italy

190

Clitumnus

191

Terni

192

The Apennines, and Horace

193

Rome

195

Freedom

197

Tomb of Cecilia Metella

198

Grotto of Egeria

200

The Coliseum

203

Death of the Princess Charlotte

205

'I love not Man the less, but Nature more 207

From 'THE GIAOUR' .

From THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS’:

* Know ye the land'

214

The Hellespont

215

From THE CORSAIR'

216

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH

218

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON.

248

Sonnet on Chillon

248

MAZEPPA

260

209

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