Selected Poetry of Lord Byron by Byron, Lord George G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction by Thomas M. Disch Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Preface (to the First and Second Cantos) Canto the First Canto the Second Canto the Third Canto the Fourth

Shorter Poems

Early Poems

On Leaving Newstead Abbey The First Kiss of Love To Woman Reply to Some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of His Mistress To the Sighing Strephon Lachin Y Gair To Romance To a Lady “I would I were a careless child” “When I rov’d a young Highlander”

Miscellaneous and Occasional Poems

Fragment, Written Shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog “Well! thou art happy” To a Lady, on Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England in the Spring Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf “The spell is broke, the charm is flown!” The Girl of Cadiz Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos “Maid of Athens, ere we part” Farewell to Malta Newstead Abbey Epistle to a Friend To Thyrza “Away, away, ye notes of Woe!” “One struggle more, and I am free” Euthanasia “And thou art dead, as young and fair” Lines to a Lady Weeping “Remember thee! remember thee!” “Thou art not false, but thou art fickle” Sonnet, To Genevra Sonnet, To the Same Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Stanzas for Music (“I speak not,” etc.) Stanzas for Music (“There’s not a joy,” etc.) Stanzas for Music (“There be none of Beauty’s daughters”) Darkness Churchill’s Grave Prometheus A Fragment (“Could I remount,” etc.) Sonnet to Lake Leman On Sam Rogers Stanzas to the Po Stanzas (“Could Love for ever”) Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa Aristomenes Last Words on Greece On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year [Love and Death]

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! snatched away in Beauty’s bloom” “My soul is dark” “I saw thee weep” “Thy days are done” Song of Saul Before His Last Battle Saul “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 By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept The Destruction of Sennacherib “A Spirit passed before me” “By the Waters of Babylon”

Domestic Pieces

Fare Thee Well Stanzas to Augusta (“When all around grew drear and dark”) Stanzas to Augusta (“Though the day of my Destiny’s over”) The Dream

Jeux D’esprit and Ephemeral Verses

Lines to Mr. Hodgson Translation of the Nurse’s Dole in the Medea of Euripides Windsor Poetics “So we’ll go no more a-roving” Versicles To Mr. Murray (“To hook the reader, you, John Murray”) To Thomas Moore Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori Epistle to Mr. Murray (“My dear Mr. Murray”) To Mr. Murray (“Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times”) Epigram, from the French of Rulhières Epilogue On My Wedding-Day My Boy Hobbie O Lines, Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster Epigram (“The world is a bundle of hay”) John Keats

Satires

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers The Vision of Judgment From Don Juan

Canto the First Canto the Second Canto the Third Canto the Fourth Canto the Seventh Canto the Ninth Canto the Eleventh Canto the Twelfth Canto the Thirteenth Canto the Fourteenth Canto the Fifteenth Canto the Sixteenth Canto the Seventeenth

Tales

The Giaour From the Bride of Abydos From the Corsair The Prisoner of Chillon Beppo

Drama

Manfred

Notes Biographical Note