Byron's Poetical Works Vol. 1

About this eBook

Author

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824

Title

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1. Poetry

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Clytie Siddall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

8861

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8861

Release Date

September 1, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Byron's Poetical Works
2. 2.Preface
3. 3.Poems on Various Occasions — Bibliographical Note to 'Hours of Idleness' and Other Early Poems
4. 4.Bibliographical Note to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
5. 5.Hours of Idleness and Other Early Poems
6. 6.Fugitive Pieces — On Leaving Newstead Abbey a
7. 7.To E—— 1
8. 8.On the Death of a Young Lady 1 , Cousin to the Author, and very dear to Him
9. 9.To D—— 1
10. 10.To Caroline a — To Caroline 1 — To Emma 1 — Fragments of School Exercises: From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus — Lines written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, by J.J. Rousseau 1 : Founded on Facts" — Answer to the Foregoing a , Addressed to Miss—— — On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School 1 — Epitaph on a Beloved Friend 1 — Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying — A Fragment 1 — To Caroline 1 — To Caroline 1 — On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806 — Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination — To Mary, on Receiving Her Picture 1 — On the Death of Mr. Fox 1 — To a Lady who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with his own, and appointed a Night in December to meet him in the Garden 1 — To a Beautiful Quaker 1 — To Lesbia 1 a — To Woman — An Occasional Prologue, Delivered by the Author Previous to the Performance of The Wheel of Fortune at a Private Theatre 1 — To Eliza a — The Tear — Reply to some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of his Mistress 1 — Granta. A Medley — To the Sighing Strephon 1 — The Cornelian 1 — To M—— a — Lines Addressed to a Young Lady 1 . — Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam — Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus — Imitation of Tibullus. Sulpicia ad Cerinthum — Translation from Catullus. Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque — Imitated from Catullus 1 . To Ellen a
11. 11.Poems on Various Occasions — To M. S. G. — Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns 1 — To M. S. G. 1 — Translation from Horace. Justum et tenacem , etc. — The First Kiss of Love — Childish Recollections 1 — Answer to a Beautiful Poem, Written by Montgomery, Author of The Wanderer in Switzerland , etc., entitled The Common Lot 1 — Love's Last Adieu — Lines a Addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher 1 , on his advising the Author to mix more with Society — 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 1
12. 12.Hours of Idleness — To George, Earl Delawarr a — Damætas 1 — To Marion 1 — Oscar of Alva 1 — Translation from Anacreon. Ode 1 — From Anacreon. Ode 3 — The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus 1 . A Paraphrase from the Æneid , Lib. 9 — Translation from the Medea of Euripides [L. 627-660] — Lachin y Gair 1 — To Romance — The Death of Calmar and Orla 1 — To Edward Noel Long, Esq. 1 a — To a Lady a
13. 13.Poems Original and Translated — When I Roved a Young Highlander a — To the Duke of Dorset a 1 — To the Earl of Clare a — I would I were a Careless Child a — Lines Written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow a 1
14. 14.Early Poems from Various Sources — Fragment, Written Shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth 1 — Remembrance — To a Lady Who Presented the Author with the Velvet Band which bound her Tresses. — To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics 1 — Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country 1 — L'Amitié est L'Amour sans Ailes 1 — The Prayer of Nature 1 — Translation from Anacreon 1 . Ode 5. — Ossian's Address to the Sun in Carthon 1 — Pignus Amoris 1 — A Woman's Hair 1 — Stanzas to Jessy 1 — The Adieu — To—— 1 — On the Eyes of Miss A—— H—— 1 — To a Vain Lady 1 — To Anne 1 — Egotism. A Letter to J.T. Becher 1 — To Anne 1 — To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning, "'Sad is my verse,' you say, 'and yet no tear.'" — On Finding a Fan 1 — Farewell to the Muse a — To an Oak at Newstead 1 — On Revisiting Harrow 1 — To my Son 1 — Queries to Casuists 1 — Song. Breeze of the Night 1 — To Harriet 1 — There was a Time, I need not name 1 a — And wilt Thou weep when I am low? a — Remind me not, Remind me not a — To a Youthful Friend a — Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull 1 — Well! Thou art Happy 1 a — Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog 1 — To a Lady 1 , On Being asked my reason for quitting England in the Spring a — Fill the Goblet Again a . A Song — Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England a
15. 15.English Bards and Scotch Reviewers — Preface 1 — Introduction — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 1 — Postscript to the Second Edition — Hints from Horace a — Introduction to Hints from Horace — Hints from Horace
16. 16.The Curse of Minerva — Notes to this edition — Note 1 — Note 2 — Introduction to The Curse of Minerva — The Curse of Minerva
17. 17.The Waltz — Introduction — Note to this edition — Preface — The Waltz

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