The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Edited, with a critical memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Ford Madox Brown

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON -__%&Æ^&_sy 4-eflcrn. smsu, a(A'a4s& .e&iM- &/t,c-„i v. - . i, a4*sqJu tCo s?n^dw*i^ns£.lA+z!?T^'sri^l£/ '--rLcC Co a4-&TI&, ■' Jumo o u E McUON pON _< CoIlovFR^ SlF^EET THE POETICAL WORKS OF If LORD BYRON. EDITED, WITH A CRITICAL MEMOIR, BY WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI. ILLUSTRATED BY FORD MADOX BROWN. LONDON: E. MOXON, SON, & CO., DOVER STREET. 1870. CONTENTS. PACE PACE Prefatory Note by W. M. Rossetti ix Dramas — Manfred ...... 194 Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice . 207 Heaven and Earth : A Mystery . 243 Satires— English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 1 The Curse of Minerva ... 12 Sardanapalus .... 254 The Two Foscari .... 285 Child Harold's Pilgrimage . A Romaunt — The Deformed Transformed . . 307 Cain : A Mystery .... 322 Werner; or, The Inheritance . 342 Canto the First ..... 17 Canto the Second .... 26 Canto the Third .... 36 Don Juan — Canto the Fourth .... 47 Canto the First 377 Canto the Second .... 393 The Waltz : An Apostrophic Hymn . 65 Canto the Third .... 409 Canto the Fourth . . . 41S Tales — Canto the Fifth 426 The Giaour 69 The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale- Canto the First ....

So Canto the Sixth ..... 43S Canto the Seventh .... 448 Canto the Eighth .... 454 Canto the Second .... 84 Canto the Ninth .... 465 The Corsair — Canto the Tenth .... 471 Canto the First .... 92 Canto the Eleventh .... 470 Canto the Second .... 97 Canto the Twelfth .... 486 Canto the Thirteenth . . . 492 Canto the Fourteenth . . . 501 Canto the Fifteenth .... 509 Canto the Sixteenth .... 516 Canto the Third .... 102 Lara — Canto the First .... 109 Canto the Second . . . . 114 The Siege of Corinth . . . »i2o Hours of Idleness — Parisina 129 On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author ... . 527 The Prisoner of Chillon ... 134 Beppo 138 Mazeppa . . . . . - 146 ToE 527 The Island — ToD- — ■ ...... 527 Canto the First ... 153 Epitaph on a Friend .... 527 Canto the Second .... 155 A Fragment . . . . . 528 Canto the Third . ... 159 On Leaving Newstead Abbey . . 528 Canto the Fourth .... 161 Lines written in " Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman," with Answer . . 528 The Prophecy of Dante— Canto the First 167 Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying 5__S Translation from Catullus . . . 52S Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus .... 529 Imitation of Tibullus . , . 520 Translation from Catullus . . . 529 Imitated from Catullus . . . 529 Translation from Horace . . . 529 Canto the Second .... 168 Canto the Third . . . - 169 Canto the Fourth .... 171 The Blues: A Literary Eclogue . 173 The Vision of Judgment . 177 The Age of Bronze .

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VI FAGE Hours of Idleness — Continued— From Anacreon ..... 529 From Anacreon ..... .529 From the Prometheus Vmctus of Æschylus 530 To Emma ...... 530 To M. S. G 53° To Caroline 531 To Caroline . . . - . . 531 To Caroline . . . . . 531 Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens ..... 531 The First Kiss of Love . . . 532 On a Change of Wasters at a Great Public School .... 532 To the Duke of Dorset . . . 532 Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth . 533 Granta : A Medley .... 533 On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow-onthe- Hill . 534 To M 534 To Woman 535 To M. S. G. . . . _ . - 535 To Mary, on receiving her Picture . 535 To Lesbia ...... 535 Lines addressed to a Young Lady, who had been alarmed at the sound of a Bullet sired by the Author 536 Love's Last Adieu .... 536 Damætas ...... 536 To Marion ...... 536 To a Lady, who presented to the Author a Lock of Hair braided with his own .... 537 Oscar of Alva: A Tale . . . 537 ■ The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus 540 Translation from the Medea of Euripides 543 Thoughts suggested by a College Examinatipn ...... 544 To a Beautiful Quaker . . . 544 The Cornelian ..... 545 An Occasional Prologue, delivered previous to the Performance of The Wheel of Fortune ata Private Theatre .... 545 On the Death of Mr Fox . . . 545 The Tear ...... 545 Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq. ..... 546 To the Sighing Strephon . . . 546 To Eliza ...... 547 Lachin y Gair ..... 547 To Romance ..... 547 Answer to some Elegant Verses, sent by a Friend to the Author . . 548 Elegy on Newstead Abbey . . 54S Childish Recollections . . . 550 Answer to a Beautiful Poem, entitled "The Common Lot" . . . 553 Lines addressed to the Rev.

J. T. Becher 553 The Death of Calmar and Orla . . 554 To Edward Noel Long, Esq. . 555 To a Lady ...... 556 I would I were a Careless Child . 556 When I roved a Young Highlander . 557 To George, Earl Delaware _ . 557 PAGE Hours of Idleness — Continued — To the Earl of Clare .... 5jS Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow . . 55s Poems on Napoleon — Ode to Napoleon .... 5°° Ode from the French .... s^1 To Napoleon t 5°2 On the Star of the "Legion of Honour " 562 Napoleon's Farewell .... 563 Hebrew Melodies— She walks in Beauty .... 563 The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept 563 If that High World ... 563 The Wild Gazelle .... 564 Oh .' weep for those .... 564 On Jordan's Banks .... 564 Jephtha's Daughter .... 564 Oh ! snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom 564 My Soul is dark .... 564 I saw thee weep .... 564 Thy Days are done .... 565 Saul 565 Song of Saul before his last Battle _ . 565 "All is vanity, saith the Preacher" . 565 When Coldness wraps this suffering Clay 565 Vision of Belshazzar .... 566 Sun of the Sleepless .... 566 Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be . - . ■ 566 Herod's Lament for Mariamne . 566 On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus .... 566 By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept ..... 567 The Destruction of Sennacherib . 567 A Spirit pass'd before me . . 567 Domestic Pieces — Fare thee well 56S A Sketch 568 Stanzas to Augusta : "When all around giew drear and dark " . 569 Stanzas to Augusta: "Though the day of my destiny's over" . . 570 Epistle to Augusta .... 570 The Dream ..... 571 Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill . . . . . . 573 The Lament of Tasso . . . 573 Poems to Thyrza — To Thyrza 575 Away, away, ye Notes of Woe ! . 576 One struggle more, and I am free . 576 Euthanasia ..... 576 And thou art dead, as young and fair 577 If sometimes in the Haunts of Men . 577 Occasional Pieces— On revisiting Harrow . . 579 Epitaph on John Adams of Southwell 579 Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer . 579 Bright be the Place of thy Soul . 579 When we Two parted . . .

CONTENTS. VII PAGE PAGE Occasional Pieces — Continued — To a Youthful Friend ... 580 Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull .... 5S0 Well ! thou art happy . . . 580 Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog . . . 581 To a Lady, on being asked my Reason for Quitting England in the Spring 581 Remind me not, Remind me not . 581 There was a Time, 1 need not name . 581 And wilt thou weep when 1 am low? 582 Fill the Goblet again .... 582 Stanzas to a Lady on leaving England 582 To Florence 583 Lines written in an Album at Malta . 583 Stanzas composed during a Thunder-storm 583 Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulf 84 The Spell is broke, the Charm is flown ! 584 Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 5S4 Lines written in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus . 5S4 Maid of Athens, ere we part . . 584 Lines written beneath a Picture . 5S4 Translation of the famous Greek War Song . . . m . . . 585 Translation of the Romaic Song . 585 On Parting 585 On a Cornelian Heart which was broken 585 Lines to a Lady weeping . . . 585 The Chain 1 gave .... 586 Address, spoken at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre, Saturday, October ro, 1812 .... 586 Verses found in a Summer-house at Hales-Owen .... 586 Remember thee !