by Lord Byron
STANZAS TO A LADY, WITH THE POEMS OF CAMOËNS
THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE
ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS AT A GREAT PUBUC SCHOOL
TO THE DUKE OF DORSET
FRAGMENT
GRANTA
ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF THE HARROW HILL
TO M —
TO WOMAN
TO M.S.G.
TO MARY
TO LESBIA
LINES ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY
LOVE’S LAST ADIEU
DAMÆTAS
TO MARION
TO A LADY
OSCAR OF ALVA
THE EPISODE OF NISUS AND EURYALUS
TRANSLATION FROM THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION
TO A BEAUTIFUL QUAKER
THE CORNELIAN
AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE
ON THE DEATH OF MR. FOX
THE TEAR
REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J.M.B. PIGOT, ESQ., ON THE CRUELTY OF HIS MISTRESS
TO THE SIGHING STREPHON
TO ELIZA
LACHIN Y GAIR
TO ROMANCE
ANSWER TO SOME ELEGANT VERSES SENT BY A FRIEND TO THE AUTHOR, COMPLAINING THAT ONE OF HIS DESCRIPTIONS WAS RATHER TOO WARMLY DRAWN
ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY
CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS
ANSWER TO A BEAUTIFUL POEM
TO A LADY
LINES
REMEMBRANCE
THE DEATH OF CALMAR AND ORLA
L’AMITTÉ EST L’AMOUR SANS AILES
THE PRAYER OF NATURE.
TO EDWARD NOEL LONG, ESQ.
TO A LADY
I WOULD I WERE A CARELESS CHILD
WHEN I ROVED A YOUNG HIGHLANDER
TO GEORGE, EARL DELAWARR
TO THE EARL OF CLARE
LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW
TO IANTHE.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE FIRST.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE SECOND.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE THIRD.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE FOURTH.
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.
SAUL.
SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE.
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.
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON.
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.
A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME.
THERE BE NONE OF BEAUTY’S DAUGHTERS
THERE’S NOT A JOY THE WORLD CAN GIVE LIKE THAT IT TAKES AWAY
ON NAPOLEON’S ESCAPE FROM ELBA.
ODE FROM THE FRENCH.
FROM THE FRENCH.
ON THE STAR OF “THE LEGION OF HONOUR.”
NAPOLEON’S FAREWELL.
THE ADIEU
TO A VAIN LADY
TO ANNE
TO ANNE: OH, SAY NOT, SWEET ANNE
TO THE AUTHOR OF A SONNET,
ON FINDING A FAN
FAREWELL TO THE MUSE
TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD
ON REVISITING HARROW
EPITAPH ON JOHN ADAMS, OF SOUTHWELL – A CARRIER, WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS
TO MY SON
FAREWELL! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL!
WHEN WE TWO PARTED
TO A YOUTHFUL FRIEND
LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL
WELL! THOU ART HAPPY
INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG
TO A LADY, ON BEING ASKED MY REASONS FOR QUITTING ENGLAND IN THE SPRING
REMIND ME NOT, REMIND ME NOT
THERE WAS A TIME, I NEED NOT NAME
AND WILT THOU WEEP WHEN I AM LOW?
FILL THE GOBLET AGAIN
STANZAS TO A LADY, ON LEAVING ENGLAND
LINES ON MR. HODGSON WRITTEN ON BOARD THE LISBON PACKET
TO FLORENCE
LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, AT MALTA
STANZAS COMPOSED DURING A THUNDERSTORM
STANZAS WRITTEN IN PASSING THE AMBRACIAN GULF
THE SPELL IS BROKE, THE CHARM IS FLOWN!
WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS
LINES IN THE TRAVELLERS’ BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS
MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE PART
TRANSLATION OF THE NURSE’S DOLE IN THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES
MY EPITAPH
SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH
LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE
TRANSLATION OF THE FAMOUS GREEK WAR SONG
TRANSLATION OF A ROMAIC LOVE SONG
ON PARTING
EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKETT, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER
FAREWELL TO MALTA
TO DIVES.
ON MOORE’S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA
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
IF SOMETIMES IN THE HAUNTS OF MEN
FROM THE FRENCH
ON A CORNELIAN HEART WHICH WAS BROKEN
LINES TO A LADY WEEPING
THE CHAIN I GAVE: FROM THE TURKISH
LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF ‘THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY’
ADDRESS, SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1812
PARENTHETICAL ADDRESS
VERSES FOUND IN A SUMMERHOUSE AT HALES-OWEN
REMEMBER THEE! REMEMBER THEE!
TO TIME
TRANSLATION OF A ROMAIC LOVE SONG
THOU ART NOT FALSE, BUT THOU ART FICKLE
ON BEING ASKED WHAT WAS THE ‘ORIGIN OF LOVE’
REMEMBER HIM, WHOM PASSION’S POWER
ON LORD THURLOW’S POEMS
TO LORD THURLOW
TO THOMAS MOORE
IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND
SONNET, TO GENEVRA
SONNET TO GENEVRA
SONNET, TO THE SAME (GENEVRA)
FROM THE PORTUGUESE, ‘TU MI CHAMAS’
THE DEVIL’S DRIVE: AN UNFINISHED RHAPSODY
WINDSOR POETICS
ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE
I SPEAK NOT, I TRACE NOT, I BREATHE NOT THY NAME
ADDRESS INTENDED TO BE RECITED AT THE CALEDONIAN MEETING.
FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE
CONDOLATORY ADDRESS TO SARAH
ELEGIAC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART.
TO BELSHAZZAR
FARE THEE WELL
A SKETCH
ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION IN THE APRIL OF 1816
STANZAS TO AUGUSTA
STANZAS TO AUGUSTA II.
EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA
THE DREAM
LINES ON HEARING THAT LADY BYRON WAS ILL
DARKNESS
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R. B. SHERIDAN
CHURCHILL’S GRAVE: A FACT LITERALLY RENDERED
PROMETHEUS
A FRAGMENT
SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL!
A
VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA
STANZAS FOR MUSIC: THEY SAY THAT HOPE IS HAPPINESS
ON A NUN
ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA
SONG FOR THE LUDDITES
VERSICLES
SO WE’LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING
TO THOMAS MOORE
TO MR. MURRAY
TO THOMAS MOORE (MY BOAT IS ON THE SHORE)
EPISTLE FROM MR. MURRAY TO DR. POLIDORI
EPISTLE TO MR. MURRAY
TO MR. MURRAY (STRAHAN, TONSON LINTOT OF THE TIMES)
ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER
ODE ON VENICE
STANZAS TO THE PO
SONNET TO GEORGE THE FOURTH, ON THE REPEAL OF LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD’S FORFEITURE
EPIGRAM: FROM THE FRENCH OF RULHIÈRES
STANZAS
ON MY WEDDING-DAY
EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT
EPIGRAM
STANZAS: WHEN A MAN HATH NO FREEDOM
EPIGRAM: THE WORLD IS A BUNDLE OF HAY
THE CHARITY BALL
EPIGRAM, ON THE BRAZIERS’ COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED TO PRESENT AN ADDRESS TO QUEEN CAROLINE
EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING- DAY TO PENELOPE
ON MY THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY, JANUARY 22, 1821
MARTIAL, LIB. I, EPIG. I.
BOWLES AND CAMPBELL
EPIGRAMS
EPITAPH
JOHN KEATS
THE CONQUEST
TO MR. MURRAY (FOR OXFORD AND FOR WALDEGRAVE)
THE IRISH AVATAR
STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA
STANZAS TO A HINDOO AIR
IMPROMPTU
TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON
ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR
ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS;
HINTS FROM HORACE
THE CURSE OF MINERVA.
THE WALTZ
THE BLUES
THE VISION OF JUDGMENT.
THE AGE OF BRONZE
THE GIAOUR
THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS
THE CORSAIR
LARA
THE SIEGE OF CORINTH
PARISINA
THE PRISONER OF CHILLON
MAZEPPA
THE ISLAND
THE LAMENT OF TASSO
THE PROPHECY OF DANTE
THE MORGANTE MAGGIORE OF PULCI
FRANCESCA OF RIMINI
MANFRED
MARINO FALIERO
SARDANAPALUS
THE TWO FOSCARI
CAIN: A MYSTERY
HEAVEN AND EARTH
WERNER
THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED
BEPPO.
DON JUAN: DEDICATION
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FIRST
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SECOND
DON JUAN: CANTO THE THIRD
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FOURTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FIFTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SIXTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SEVENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE EIGHTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE NINTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE TENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE ELEVENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE TWELFTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE THIRTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FOURTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FIFTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SIXTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH
A VERSION OF OSSIAN’S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.
FAREWELL PETITION TO R. C. H., ESQ.
TO THE HONBLE MRS GEORGE LAMB.
ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS.
ICH DIEN.
ANSWER TO — S PROFESSIONS OF AFFECTION.
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT.
E NIHILO NIHIL
BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF “SALLEY IN OUR ALLEY.”
ANOTHER SIMPLE BALLAT.
EPILOGUE.
MY BOY HOBBIE O.
A VOLUME OF NONSENSE.
LUCIETTA. A FRAGMENT.
JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA.
SONG TO THE SULIOTES.
LOVE AND DEATH.
LAST WORDS ON GREECE.
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A FRAGMENT
A FRAGMENT
A SKETCH
A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME.
A VERSION OF OSSIAN’S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.
A VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA
A VOLUME OF NONSENSE.
ADDRESS INTENDED TO BE RECITED AT THE CALEDONIAN MEETING.
ADDRESS, SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1812
ADRIAN’S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL WHEN DYING
ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER.
AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE
AND THOU ART DEAD, AS YOUNG AND FAIR
AND WILT THOU WEEP WHEN I AM LOW?
ANOTHER SIMPLE BALLAT.
ANSWER TO — S PROFESSIONS OF AFFECTION.
ANSWER TO A BEAUTIFUL POEM
ANSWER TO SOME ELEGANT VERSES SENT BY A FRIEND TO THE AUTHOR, COMPLAINING THAT ONE OF HIS DESCRIPTIONS WAS RATHER TOO WARMLY DRAWN
AWAY, AWAY, YE NOTES OF WOE!
BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF “SALLEY IN OUR ALLEY.”
BEPPO.
BOWLES AND CAMPBELL
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL!
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL!
BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT.
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON.
CAIN: A MYSTERY
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE FIRST.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE FOURTH.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE SECOND.
CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO THE THIRD.
CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS
CHURCHILL’S GRAVE: A FACT LITERALLY RENDERED
CONDOLATORY ADDRESS TO SARAH
DAMÆTAS
DARKNESS
DON JUAN: CANTO THE EIGHTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE ELEVENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FIFTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FIFTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FIRST
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FOURTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE FOURTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE NINTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SECOND
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SEVENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SIXTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE SIXTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE TENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE THIRD
DON JUAN: CANTO THE THIRTEENTH
DON JUAN: CANTO THE TWELFTH
DON JUAN: DEDICATION
E NIHILO NIHIL
ELEGIAC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART.
ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY
ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION IN THE APRIL OF 1816
ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS;
EPIGRAM
EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING- DAY TO PENELOPE
EPIGRAM, ON THE BRAZIERS’ COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED TO PRESENT AN ADDRESS TO QUEEN CAROLINE
EPIGRAM: FROM THE FRENCH OF RULHIÈRES
EPIGRAM: THE WORLD IS A BUNDLE OF HAY
EPIGRAMS
EPILOGUE.
EPISTLE FROM MR. MURRAY TO DR. POLIDORI
EPISTLE TO A FRIEND
EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA
EPISTLE TO MR. MURRAY
EPITAPH
EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKETT, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER
EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT
EPITAPH ON A BELOVED FRIEND
EPITAPH ON JOHN ADAMS, OF SOUTHWELL – A CARRIER, WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS
EUTHANASIA
FARE THEE WELL
FAREWELL PETITION TO R. C. H.
, ESQ.
FAREWELL TO MALTA
FAREWELL TO THE MUSE
FAREWELL! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER
FILL THE GOBLET AGAIN
FRAGMENT
FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE
FRANCESCA OF RIMINI
FROM ANACREON
FROM ANACREON
FROM THE FRENCH
FROM THE FRENCH.
FROM THE PORTUGUESE, ‘TU MI CHAMAS’
FROM THE PROMETHEUS VINCTUS OF ÆSCHYLUS
GRANTA
HEAVEN AND EARTH
HEROD’S LAMENT FOR MARIAMNE.
HINTS FROM HORACE
I SAW THEE WEEP.
I SPEAK NOT, I TRACE NOT, I BREATHE NOT THY NAME
I WOULD I WERE A CARELESS CHILD
ICH DIEN.
IF SOMETIMES IN THE HAUNTS OF MEN
IF THAT HIGH WORLD.
IMITATED FROM CATULLUS
IMITATION OF TIBULLUS
IMPROMPTU
IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND
INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG
JEPHTHA’S DAUGHTER.
JOHN KEATS
JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA.
L’AMITTÉ EST L’AMOUR SANS AILES
LACHIN Y GAIR
LARA
LAST WORDS ON GREECE.
LINES
LINES
LINES ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY
LINES IN THE TRAVELLERS’ BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS
LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL
LINES ON HEARING THAT LADY BYRON WAS ILL
LINES ON MR. HODGSON WRITTEN ON BOARD THE LISBON PACKET
LINES TO A LADY WEEPING
LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE
LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW
LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, AT MALTA
LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF ‘THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY’
LOVE AND DEATH.
LOVE’S LAST ADIEU
LUCIETTA. A FRAGMENT.
MAID OF ATHENS, ERE WE PART
MANFRED
MARINO FALIERO
MARTIAL, LIB. I, EPIG. I.
MAZEPPA
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R. B. SHERIDAN
MY BOY HOBBIE O.
MY EPITAPH
MY SOUL IS DARK.
NAPOLEON’S FAREWELL.
ODE FROM THE FRENCH.
ODE ON VENICE
ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE
OH! SNATCHED AWAY IN BEAUTY’S BLOOM.
OH! WEEP FOR THOSE.
ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS AT A GREAT PUBUC SCHOOL
ON A CORNELIAN HEART WHICH WAS BROKEN
ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF THE HARROW HILL
ON A NUN
ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS.
ON BEING ASKED WHAT WAS THE ‘ORIGIN OF LOVE’
ON FINDING A FAN
ON JORDAN’S BANKS.
ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY
ON LORD THURLOW’S POEMS
ON MOORE’S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA
ON MY THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY, JANUARY 22, 1821
ON MY WEDDING-DAY
ON NAPOLEON’S ESCAPE FROM ELBA.
ON PARTING
ON REVISITING HARROW
ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER