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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Complete in one volume. Collected and arranged, with illustrative notes by Thomas Moore, Lord Jeffrey [and others] ... With a portrait, etc

George Gordon Byron Byron · 1869 · Scanned text

921,615 words · about 64 h 32 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Language
English
Published
1869
Length
921,615 words · about 64 h 32 min
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6 reader sections
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Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
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Contents (6)
  1. Front matter about 18 min
  2. Preface about 17 h 55 min
  3. Part I about 5 h 33 min
  4. Part II. Scene about 20 min
  5. Part III Scene about 34 h 28 min
  6. Appendix about 5 h 58 min

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Front matter

' , \Y ( i i f'/' . ' 3M ©HIE T'D-LiTTMIE . jnrw35DK.AjB> ft. I^ WILTS IT OW & C® 9©. 8)2 & H4k GMAi I THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. COLLECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES BY THOMAS MOORE, LORD JEFFREY, PROFESSOR WILSON, J. G. LOCKHART, SIR WALTER SCOTT, BISHOP HEBER, GEORGE ELLIS, THOMAS CAMPBELL, REV. H. H. MILMAN, SAMUEL ROGERS, &.C. icC. icC. 77ITH A PORTRAIT, AND VIEW OF NEWSTEAD ABBEY. XEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. 90, 92 & 94 GRAND STREET, 1869. I CONTENTS. P.VOS CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.

Preface to the First and Second Cantos 11 To Iantiie 12 Canto 1 13 Canto II 20 Canto III 38 Canto IV 51 Dedication 51 THE GIAOUR ; A Fragment of a Turkish Tale 72 Dedication 72 Advertisement • 72 THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; A Turkish Tale ... 87 Dedication 87 THE CORSAIR; A Tale 99 Dedication 99 LARA; A Tale 118 THE SIEGE OF CORINTH 130 Dedication 130 Advertisement 130 PARISINA 141 Dedication 141 Advertisement .' 141 THE PRISONER OF CHILLON ; A Fable .... 148 Sonnet to Chillon 143 BEPPO ; A Venetian Story 152 MAZEPPA 163 Advertisement 163 THE ISLAND; Or, Christian and his Comrades 171 Advertisement 171 MANFRED ; A Dramatic Poem 183 MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE ; An Historical Tragedy 203 Preface 203 HEAVEN AND EARTH; A BIystery 242 SARDANAPALUS; A Tragedy 254 Dedication 254 Preface 254 THE TWO FOSCARI ; An Historical Tragedy 287 THE DEFORBIED TRANSFORBIED ; A Drama 310 Advertisement 310 p.ioa CAIN; A Mystery 325 Dedication 326 Preface 320 WERNER ; Or, The Inheritance : A Tragedy 351 Dedication 351 Preface 351 HOURS OF'lDLENESS; A Series of Poems, Original and Translated 385 Dedication 385 Preface 385 On the Death of a Young Lady, cousin to the author, and very dear to him 380 ToE 387 ToD 387 Epitaph on a Friend 387 A Fragment 388 On leaving Newstead Abbey 388 Lines written in " Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman ; by J. J. Rousseau : sounded on Facts" 389 Answer to the foregoing, addressed to Bliss 389 Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying 389 Translation from Catullus.

Ad Lesbiam 389 Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus ■ 389 Imitation of Tibullus. " Sulpicia ad Cerinthum" 389 Translation from Catullus. " Lugete Veneres, Cupidinesque," <tc 389 Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen 389 Translation from Horace. " Justum et tenacem," &c 390 From Anacreon. "ec\u Atyciv Arpiiiai." 390 From Anacreon. " IWtaovvKTiai, notf tltpais." . . . 390 From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus. " xfit]&ai? b idvTa »'//itov, k. t. A." 390 To Emma 391 ToM.S.G 391 To Caroline 391 To the same 392 To the same 392 Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens. 392 The First Kiss of Love 393 On a Change of Blasters at a great Public School 393 To the Duke of Dorset 393 Fragment, written sstortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth 391 Granta ; a Medley 395 On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill 3!M CONTENTS. tage THE WALTZ; An Apostrohiic Hymn 467 To the Publisher 487 ODE TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 470 HEBREW BIELODIES 473 She Walts in Beauty 474 Tlie Harp the Blonarch Blinstrel swept 474 If that High World 474 The wild Gazelle 474 Oh ! weep for those 474 On Jordan's Banks 474 Jephtha's Daughter 474 Oh ! snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom 474* BIy Soul is dark . 174 I saw thee weep 475 Thy Days are done 475 Song of Saul before his last Battle 475 Saul 475 " All is Vanity, saith the Preacher" 476 When Coldness wraps this suffering Clay 476 Vision of Belshazzar 476 Sun of the Sleepless 476 Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be 477 Herod's Lament for Blariamne 477 On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 477 By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and Wept 477 The Destruction of Sennacherib 477 A Spirit pass'd before me.

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