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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Byron · 1878 · Scanned text

543,079 words · about 38 h 2 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Language
English
Published
1878
Length
543,079 words · about 38 h 2 min
Sections
5 reader sections
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Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
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Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter about 8 min
  2. Preface about 15 h 24 min
  3. Part I about 4 h 29 min
  4. Part II about 17 min
  5. Part III about 17 h 44 min

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Front matter

THE -POETICAL WORKS or LORD BYRON. CONTENTS. Page PACr. Dramas — Manfred . ■ . . ] . . 194 Marino Fafiero, Doge of Venice . 207 Heaven and Earth : A Mystery • 243 Sardanapalus . . . . , 254 The Two Foscari . . . • 285 The Deformed Transformed . • 307 Cain : A Mystery : . . 322 Werner ; or, The Inheritance . . 34* Dow Juan — Canto the First 377 Canto the Second . . • • 393 Canto the Third .... 409 Canto the Fourth . . . . 41.S Canto the Fifth . - . . . , 426 Canto the Sixth 438 Canto the Seventh ■ • • • 448 Canto the Eighth . » • • 454 Canto the Ninth- ; . . . 465 Canto the Tenth ■ -. • • 471 Canto the Eleventh » . • ♦ 478 Canto the Twelfth . _ . .480 Canto the Thirteenth • • • 492 Canto the Fourteenth • • • 501 Canto the Fifteenth • • • 509 Canto the Sixteenth . . . . 516 Hours qf Idleness — On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author . . . 557 To E-. — _.„__,.. 527 ToD ...... 5=7 Epitaph on a Friend .... 527 A Fragment ..... 528 On Leaving Newstead Abbey . . 528 Lines written in "Letters of an I talian Nun and an English Gentleman," with Answer . .

Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying 52S Translation from Catullus . . . 528 Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus .... 529 Imitation of Tibullus . . . 529 Translation from Catullus . . . 529 Imitated from Catullus . ... 929 Translation from Horaco . . • 529 Satires — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers _i The Curse of Minerva ... 12 Child Harold's Pilgrimage . A Roma unt — Canto -the First ...... *7 Canto the Second ,. . , . 26 Canto the Thirds . _i . 36 Canto the Fourth .... 47 The Waltz : An Apostrophie Hymn . 65 Talks— The Giaour ,-._... 69 The Bride of Abydos : A Turkish Tale- Canto the First . . . . 80 Canto the Second . . .) . 64 The Corsair — Canto the First . vt • > 9a Canto the Second • • • 97 Canto the Third . V '_. * 102 Lara — Canto the First .- v :, . 109 Canto the Second . . • • 114 The Siege of Corinth •' • . . iso ; Pari-sina . . . 'J . . 129 The Prisoner of'Chillon :.' J . 134 Beppo. _. :. .

V J . 138 Mazeppa . • ■•'*._ X46 The Island — Canto the First ; !|' V ! 153 Canto the Second •. J '.' '. -55 Canto the Third . •' '.', - 159 Canto the FourA . .< . . 161 The Prophecy of Dahtb— Canto the First . . . . • 467 Canto the Second .... 168 Canto the Third .... 169 Canto the Fourth .... 171 The Blues : A Literary Eclogue . 173 The Vision or Jtogment . . 177 The Age or Bronzs . . . 187 Tales— 120 CONTENTS. VI PAGE Hours or Idliness-CV«/«"«<2— To the Earl of Clare. ■ .- ■ 55» Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow . . S5» Poems oh Napoleon— Ode to Napoleon . . • • 5 Ode from the French » 5°n Sfe thi "Ligionof Honour" rf.

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