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HISTORICAL CONTEXT: THE REGENCY PERIOD

LITERARY CONTEXT: ROMANTICISM AND THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS

TO M. S. G.

STANZAS TO A LADY, WITH THE POEMS OF CAMOËNS.

TO M. S. G.

TRANSLATION FROM HORACE.

THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE.

CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS.

ANSWER TO A BEAUTIFUL POEM, WRITTEN BY MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR OF "THE WANDERER OF SWITZERLAND," ETC., ENTITLED "THE COMMON LOT."

LOVE'S LAST ADIEU.

LINES. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. J. T. BECHER, 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.

HOURS OF IDLENESS

TO GEORGE, EARL DELAWARR.

DAMÆTAS.

TO MARION.

OSCAR OF ALVA.

TRANSLATION FROM ANACREON.

FROM ANACREON.

THE EPISODE OF NISUS AND EURYALUS.

LACHIN Y GAIR.

TO ROMANCE.

THE DEATH OF CALMAR AND ORLA.

TO EDWARD NOEL LONG, ESQ.

TO A LADY.

POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED

WHEN I ROVED A YOUNG HIGHLANDER.

TO THE DUKE OF DORSET.

TO THE EARL OF CLARE.

I WOULD I WERE A CARELESS CHILD.

EARLY POEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW.

FRAGMENT.

REMEMBRANCE.

TO A LADY WHO PRESENTED THE AUTHOR WITH THE VELVET BAND WHICH BOUND HER TRESSES.

TO A KNOT OF UNGENEROUS CRITICS.

SOLILOQUY OF A BARD IN THE COUNTRY.

L'AMITIÉ, EST L'AMOUR SANS AILES.

THE PRAYER OF NATURE.

TRANSLATION FROM ANACREON.

OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN IN "CARTHON."

PIGNUS AMORIS.

A WOMAN'S HAIR.

STANZAS TO JESSY.

THE ADIEU.

TO——

ON THE EYES OF MISS A——H——

TO A VAIN LADY.

TO ANNE.

EGOTISM. A LETTER TO J. T. BECHER.

TO ANNE.

TO THE AUTHOR OF A SONNET

ON FINDING A FAN.

TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD.

ON REVISITING HARROW.

TO MY SON.

QUERIES TO CASUISTS.

SONG. BREEZE OF THE NIGHT

TO HARRIET.

THERE WAS A TIME, I NEED NOT NAME.

AND WILT THOU WEEP WHEN I AM LOW?

EPISTLE TO A YOUNG NOBLEMAN IN LOVE.

REMIND ME NOT, REMIND ME NOT.

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 REASON FOR QUITTING ENGLAND IN THE SPRING.

FILL THE GOBLET AGAIN. A SONG.

STANZAS TO A LADY, ON LEAVING ENGLAND.

ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY.

TO E—-

ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, COUSIN TO THE AUTHOR, AND VERY DEAR TO HIM.

TO D—-

TO CAROLINE.

TO EMMA.

FRAGMENTS OF SCHOOL EXERCISES: FROM THE "PROMETHEUS VINCTUS" OF AESCHYLUS,

LINES WRITTEN IN "LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN AND AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, BY J. J. ROUSSEAU; FOUNDED ON FACTS."

ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING, ADDRESSED TO MISS——.

ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS AT A GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOL.

EPITAPH ON A BELOVED FRIEND.

ADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL WHEN DYING.

A FRAGMENT.

TO CAROLINE.

TO CAROLINE.

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.

ON THE DEATH OF MR. FOX,

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.

TO A BEAUTIFUL QUAKER.

TO WOMAN.

AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE, DELIVERED BY THE AUTHOR PREVIOUS TO THE PERFORMANCE OF "THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE" AT A PRIVATE THEATRE.

THE TEAR.

REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J. M. B. PIGOT, ESQ., ON THE CRUELTY OF HIS MISTRESS.

GRANTA. A MEDLEY.

TO THE SIGHING STREPHON.

THE CORNELIAN.

TO M——

LINES ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY.

TRANSLATION FROM CATULLUS.

TRANSLATION OF THE EPITAPH ON VIRGIL AND TIBULLUS, BY DOMITIUS MARSUS.

IMITATION OF TIBULLUS.

TRANSLATION FROM CATULLUS.

IMITATED FROM CATULLUS.

ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS; A SATIRE.

PREFACE

ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS.

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS.

ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS.

HINTS FROM HORACE

INTRODUCTION TO HINTS FROM HORACE

HINTS FROM HORACE

THE CURSE OF MINERVA

INTRODUCTION TO THE CURSE OF MINERVA

THE CURSE OF MINERVA.

INTRODUCTION TO 'THE WALTZ'

THE WALTZ

THE WALTZ: AN APOSTROPHIC HYMN.

THE WALTZ

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE - A ROMAUNT.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST AND SECOND CANTOS.

ADDITION TO THE PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST AND SECOND CANTOS OF CHILDE HAROLD.

CANTO THE FIRST.

TO IANTHE.

CANTO THE FIRST.

CHILDE HAROLD'S GOOD NIGHT.

TO INEZ.

CANTO THE SECOND

CANTO THE THIRD.

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD CANTO.

NOTE ON MSS. OF THE THIRD CANTO.

CANTO THE THIRD.

CANTO THE FOURTH.

INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH CANTO.

DEDICATION

CANTO THE FOURTH

THE OCCASIONAL PIECES (POEMS 1809-1813; POEMS 1814-1816)

INTRODUCTION TO THE OCCASIONAL PIECES (POEMS 1809-1813; POEMS 1814-1816).

POEMS 1809-1813.

THE GIRL OF CADIZ.

LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, AT MALTA.

TO FLORENCE.

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.

FRAGMENT FROM THE "MONK OF ATHOS."

LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE.

TRANSLATION OF THE FAMOUS GREEK WAR SONG,

TRANSLATION OF THE ROMAIC SONG,

ON PARTING.

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.ABCDk]

IF SOMETIMES IN THE HAUNTS OF MEN.

ON A CORNELIAN HEART WHICH WAS BROKEN.

THE CHAIN I GAVE.

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 SUMMER-HOUSE 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."ABCDw]

ON THE QUOTATION,

REMEMBER HIM, WHOM PASSION'S POWER.

IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND.

SONNET. TO GENEVRA.

SONNET. TO GENEVRA.

FROM THE PORTUGUESE.

THE GIAOUR: A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE GIAOUR

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON THE GIAOUR

DEDICATION

THE GIAOUR.

THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. A TURKISH TALE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

DEDICATION

CANTO THE FIRST.

CANTO THE SECOND

THE CORSAIR: A TALE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE CORSAIR.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON THE CORSAIR.

TO THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.

CANTO THE FIRST.

CANTO THE SECOND.

CANTO THE THIRD.

ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

INTRODUCTION TO LARA

LARA: A TALE

CANTO THE FIRST.

CANTO THE SECOND.

INTRODUCTION TO HEBREW MELODIES

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.

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!

DEEM'ST IT TO BE.

HEROD'S LAMENT FOR MARIAMNE.

JERUSALEM BY TITUS.

DOWN AND WEPT.

"BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON."

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.

A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME.

POEMS 1814-1816.

FAREWELL! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER.

WHEN WE TWO PARTED.

LOVE AND GOLD

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

ADDRESS INTENDED TO BE RECITED AT THE CALEDONIAN MEETING.

ELEGIAC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART.

JULIAN [FRAGMENT].

TO BELSHAZZAR.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF DORSET.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

NAPOLEON'S FAREWELL.

FROM THE FRENCH.

ODE FROM THE FRENCH.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

ON THE STAR OF "THE LEGION OF HONOUR."

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH

INTRODUCTION TO THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.

DEDICATION

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH

PARISINA

INTRODUCTION TO PARISINA.

DEDICATION

PARISINA.

POEMS OF THE SEPARATION

INTRODUCTION TO POEMS OF THE SEPARATION.

FARE THEE WELL.

A SKETCH.

STANZAS TO AUGUSTA.

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON

INTRODUCTION TO THE PRISONER OF CHILLON.

SONNET ON CHILLON

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON

THE DREAM

POEMS OF JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1816

INTRODUCTION TO THE DREAM

THE DREAM

DARKNESS.

CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT LITERALLY RENDERED.

PROMETHEUS.

A FRAGMENT.

SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN.

STANZAS TO AUGUSTA.

EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA.

LINES ON HEARING THAT LADY BYRON WAS ILL.

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R. B. SHERIDAN.

INTRODUCTION TO MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R. B. SHERIDAN.

SPOKEN AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE, LONDON.

MANFRED: DRAMATIC POEM.

INTRODUCTION TO MANFRED

ACT 1.

ACT II.

ACT III.

THE LAMENT OF TASSO.

INTRODUCTION TO THE LAMENT OF TASSO.

THE LAMENT OF TASSO.

BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY.

INTRODUCTION TO BEPPO

BEPPO.

ODE ON VENICE

ODE ON VENICE

MAZEPPA.

INTRODUCTION TO MAZEPPA

MAZEPPA

THE PROPHECY OF DANTE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECY OF DANTE.

DEDICATION.

PREFACE

CANTO THE FIRST.

CANTO THE SECOND.

CANTO THE THIRD.

CANTO THE FOURTH.

THE MORGANTE MAGGIORE OF PULCI.

INTRODUCTION TO THE MORGANTE MAGGIORE.

CANTO THE FIRST.

FRANCESCA OF RIMINI.

INTRODUCTION TO FRANCESCA OF RIMINI.

CANTO THE FIFTH.

MARINO FALIERO

INTRODUCTION TO MARINO FALIERO.

PREFACE.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

APPENDIX.

Note A.

NOTE B.

NOTE C.

THE VISION OF JUDGMENT. BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS.

INTRODUCTION TO THE VISION OF JUDGMENT.

PREFACE

THE VISION OF JUDGMENT.

POEMS 1816-1823.

A VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA.

SONETTO DI VITTORELLI.

TRANSLATION FROM VITTORELLI.

ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA.

VENICE. A FRAGMENT.

SO WE'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING.

[LORD BYRON'S VERSES ON SAM ROGERS.]

THE DUEL.

STANZAS TO THE PO.

SONNET ON THE NUPTIALS OF THE MARQUIS ANTONIO CAVALLI WITH THE COUNTESS CLELIA RASPONI OF RAVENNA.

SONNET TO THE PRINCE REGENT.

STANZAS.

ODE TO A LADY WHOSE LOVER WAS KILLED BY A BALL, WHICH AT THE SAME TIME SHIVERED A PORTRAIT NEXT HIS HEART.

THE IRISH AVATAR.

STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA.

STANZAS TO A HINDOO AIR.

TO——

TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON.

ARISTOMENES

THE BLUES: A LITERARY ECLOGUE.

INTRODUCTION TO THE BLUES.

A LITERARY ECLOGUE.

ECLOGUE THE FIRST.

ECLOGUE THE SECOND.

SARDANAPALUS: A TRAGEDY.

INTRODUCTION TO SARDANAPALUS

SARDANAPALUS.

PREFACE

SARDANAPALUS.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

THE TWO FOSCARI: AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TWO FOSCARI

THE TWO FOSCARI.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

CAIN: A MYSTERY.

INTRODUCTION TO CAIN.

DEDICATION

PREFACE

CAIN: A MYSTERY.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

HEAVEN AND EARTH; A MYSTERY.

INTRODUCTION TO HEAVEN AND EARTH.

HEAVEN AND EARTH.

PART I.

WERNER; OR, THE INHERITANCE: A TRAGEDY.

INTRODUCTION TO WERNER.

Note to the Introduction to Werner.

DEDICATION

PREFACE

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED: A DRAMA.

INTRODUCTION TO THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED.

THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED:

PART I.

PART II.

PART III.

FRAGMENT OF THE THIRD PART OF THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED.

THE AGE OF BRONZE; OR, CARMEN SECULARE ET ANNUS HAUD MIRABILIS

INTRODUCTION TO THE AGE OF BRONZE.

THE AGE OF BRONZE.

THE ISLAND; OR, CHRISTIAN AND HIS COMRADES.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ISLAND

THE ISLAND

CANTO THE FIRST.

CANTO THE SECOND.

CANTO THE THIRD.

CANTO THE FOURTH.

DON JUAN

INTRODUCTION TO DON JUAN

FRAGMENT ON THE BACK OF THE MS. OF CANTO I.

DEDICATION.

CANTO THE FIRST.

CANTO THE SECOND.

CANTO THE THIRD.

CANTO THE FOURTH.

CANTO THE FIFTH.

PREFACE TO CANTOS VI., VII., AND VIII.

CANTO THE SIXTH.

CANTO THE SEVENTH.

CANTO THE EIGHTH.

CANTO THE NINTH.

CANTO THE TENTH.

CANTO THE ELEVENTH.

CANTO THE TWELFTH.

CANTO THE THIRTEENTH.

CANTO THE FOURTEENTH.

CANTO THE FIFTEENTH.

CANTO THE SIXTEENTH.

CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH.

THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

CHAPTER XXXVI

CHAPTER XXXVII

CHAPTER XXXVIII

CHAPTER XXXIX

CHAPTER XL

CHAPTER XLI

CHAPTER XLII

CHAPTER XLIII

CHAPTER XLIV

CHAPTER XLV

CHAPTER XLVI

CHAPTER XLVII

CHAPTER XLVIII

CHAPTER XLIX