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Preface to the First Edition I
On the Death of a Young Lady ... 3
ToE 3
ToD 3
Epitaph on a Friend 4
A Fragment 4
On leaving Newstead Abbey 4
Lines written in Rousseau's " Letters of
an Italian Nun " 5
Answer to the Foregoing 5
Adrian's Address to his Soul 5
Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam, 6 Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and
Tibullus 6
Imitation of Tibullus 6
Translation from Catullus 6
Imitated from Catullus 6
Translation from Horace 6
From Anacreon 7
From Anacreon 7
From the Prometheus Vinctus of Ms-
chylus ..... 7
To Emma 8
To M. S. G 8
To a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens . 9
The First Kiss of Love 10
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public
School 10
To the Duke of Dorset 10
Fragment — the Marriage of Miss Cha-
worth 12
Granta. A Medley 12
On a Distant View of Harrow .... 13
To M 14
To Woman 14
ToM. S. G 15
To Mary, on receiving her Picture . 15
To Lesbia * . . . 15
Lines addressed to a Young Lady ... 16
Love's Last Adieu 16
Damaetas 17
To Marion 17
Oscar of Alva 18
Nisus and Euryalus 21
Translation from the Medea of Euripides, 25 Thoughts suggested by a College Examination 26
To a Beautiful Quaker 27
The Cornelian 28
An Occasional Prologue 28
On the Death of Fox 29
The Tear 29
Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot . 30
To the Sighing Strephon 30
To Eliza 31
Lachin y Gair 31
To Romance 32
Answer to some Verses 33
Elegy on Newstead Abbey 33
Childish Recollections 36
Answer to " The Common Lot "... 42
Remembrance 43
Lines to the Rev. J. T. Becher .... 43
The Death of Calmar and Orla .... 43
L'Amiti^ est T Amour sans Ailes. ... 45
The Prayer of Nature 46
To Edward Noel Long 47
I would I were a Careless Child ... 48
When I roved a Young Highlander . . 49
To George, Earl Delawarr 50
To the Earl of Clare 51
Lines written beneath an Elm at Harrow 5a
CONTENTS.
The Adieu 53
To a Vain Lady 54
To Anne 54
To the Same 54
To the Author of a Sonnet 55
On finding a Fan 55
Farewell to the Muse 55
To an Oak at Newstead 56
On revisiting Harrow 56
Epitaph on John Adams of Southwell 57
To my Son 57
Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer ... 57
When we two parted 58
To a Youthful Friend 58
Lines upon a Cup formed from a
Skull 59
Well! thou art happy 59
On the Monument of a Newfoundland
Dog 59
To a Lady, on being asked my reason for
quitting England 60
Remind me not, remind me not .... 60
There was a time, I need not name . . 61
And wilt thou weep when I am low . . 61
Fill the Goblet again 61
Stanzas to a Lady, on leaving England 62
Lines in an Album at Malta 62
To Florence 62
Stanzas composed during a Thunderstorm 63
Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian
Gulf 64
The spell is broke, the charm is flown . 64
After swimming from Sestos to Abydos . 64
Maid of Athens, ere we part 65
My Epitaph 65
Substitute for an Epitaph 66
Lines in the Traveller's Book at Orcho-
menus 66
Translation of the Greek War Song,
" AeOre irai&es," etc 66
Translation of a Romaic Song .... 66
Lines written beneath a Picture .... 67
Epitaph for Joseph Blackett 67
Farewell to Malta 67
To Dives 68
On Moore's last Operatic Farce .... 68
PAGB
Epistle to a Friend 68
To Thyrza 69
Away ! away ! ye Notes of Woe ... 70
One struggle more and I am free ... 70
Euthanasia 70
And thou art dead, as young and fair . . 71
If sometimes in the haunts of men ... 71
On a Cornelian Heart 72
Lines to a Lady weeping 72
The Chain I gave 72
Lines written in the " Pleasures of
Memory " 72
Address at the Opening of Drury Lane
Theatre 73
Parenthetical Address, by Dr. Plagiary . 74 Verses found in a Summer-House at
Hales-Owen 75
Remember Thee ! remember Thee! . . 75
To Time 75
Translation of a Romaic Love Song . . 75
Thou art not false, but thou art fickle . . 76
On being asked the Origin of Love . . 76
Remember him whom Passion's power . 76
On Lord Thurlow's Poems 77
To Lord Thurlow 77
/To Thomas Moore 77
Impromptu, in reply to a Friend ... 78
Sonnet, to Genevra . , 78
Sonnet, to the Same 78
From the Portuguese (Tu me chamas) . 78
Another Version 78
The Devil's Drive: An Unfinished Rhapsody 78
Windsor Poetics. Lines composed on the Occasion of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent being seen standing between the Coffins of Henry VIII. and
Charles I., at Windsor 80
Stanzas for Music. " I speak not," etc . 80 Address intended to be recited at the Caledonian Meeting 80
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore, 81 Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess
of Jersey 81
To Belshazzar 82
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter
Parker, Bart 82
Stanzas for Music. " There's not a Joy,"
etc 82
Stanzas for Music. " There be none of
Beauty's Daughter?," etc 83
CONTENTS.
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Occasional Pieces (continued).
On Napoleon's Escape from Elba ... 83 Ode from the French. " We do not curse
thee, Waterloo " 83
From the French. "Must thou go, my
glorious Chief ?" 84
On the Star of " The Legion of Honor."
Napoleon's Farewell. From the French . 85 Endorsement to the Deed of Separation,
in the April of 1816 86
Darkness 86
Churchill's Grave : a fact literally rendered ... 87
Prometheus 88
A Fragment. " Could I remount," etc. 88
Sonnet to Lake Leman 89
Stanzas for Music. " Bright be the Place
of thy Soul! " 89
A very mournful Ballad on the Siege and
Conquest of Alhama 89
Sonetto di Vittorelli 92
Translation from Vittorelli 92
On the Bust of Helen by Canova ... 92 Stanzas for Music. " They say that Hope,"
etc 92
Song for the Luddites 93
Versicles 93
" So we'll go no more a-roving "... 93 To Thomas Moore. " What are you doing now?" 93
To Mr. Murray. " To hook the Reader,"
etc 93
To Thomas Moore. " My Boat is on the
Shore," etc 94
Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori, 94 Epistle to Mr. Murray. " My dear Murray," etc 95
To Mr. Murray. " Strahan, Tonson,
Lintot," etc 95
On the Birth of John William Rizzo
Hoppner • . 95
Stanzas to the Po 95
Epigram. From the French of Rulhi-
eres 96
Sonnet to George IV., on the Repeal of
Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture . 96 Stanzas. " Could Love forever," etc. . 97 On my Wedding Day ....... 98
Epitaph for William Pitt 98
Epigram. " In digging up your Bones," etc 98
PAGB
Stanzas. " When a Man hath no Freedom," etc 98
Epigram. " The World is a Bundle of
Hay," etc ^
The Charity Ball : . . 98
Epigram on the Brazier's Company having resolved to present an Address to
Queen Caroline 98
Epigram on my Wedding Day. To
Penelope . 98
On my Thirty-Third Birthday .... 98
Martial, Lib. i., Epig. i 99
Bowles and Campbell ....... 99
Epigrams on Castlereagh 99
Epitaph on the Same 90
John Keats 99
The Conquest 99
To Mr. Murray. " For Orford and for
Waldegrave " 99
The Irish Avatar 100
Stanzas written on the Road between
Florence and Pisa 102
Stanzas to a Hindoo Air 102
Impromptu 103
To the Countess of Blessington .... 103 On this Day I complete my Thirty-Sixth
Year 103
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A
Satire 104
Hints from Horace: Being an Allusion in English Verse to the Epistle " Ad
Pisones, de Arte Poetica " 126
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte 151
•* She walks in beauty " 154
" The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept," 154
" If that high World " 155
" The wild Gazelle " ....... 155
" Oh weep for those " 155
" On Jordan's Banks " . ...... 155
Jephtha's Daughter 156
"Oh snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom" 156
" My Soul is dark" 156
"I saw thee weep" .156
" Thy days are done " 156
Song of Saul before his last Battle . . . 157
Saul 157
All is Vanity, saith the Preacher ... 157
CONTENTS.
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Hebrew Melodies {continued).
" When Coldness wraps this suffering
Clay" 158
Vision of Belsha7zar 158
" Sun of the Sleepless " 158
** Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st
it to be" 159
Herod's Lament for Mariamne .... 159 On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 159
By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down
and wept 160
The Destruction of Sennacherib . . . 160
A spirit passed before me. From Job . 160
" Fare thee well " 161
A Sketch. " Born in the Garret," etc. . 162 Stanzas to Augusta. " When all around,"
etc 163
To the same. " Though the Day of my
Destiny's over " 164
Epistle to the same. " My Sister, my
sweet Sister " 164
Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was
ill 166
Monody on the Death of the Right Hon.
R. B. Sheridan 167
The Dream 169
Ode on Venice 176
Canto the Fourth 496 Manfred: A Dramatic Poem 501
Merino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An
Historical Tragedy 524
Sardanapalus: A Tragedy 580
The Two Foscari : An Historical Tragedy, 622
Cain : A Mystery 653
Heaven and Earth : A Mystery . . . 682 The Deformed Transformed: A Drama, 697 Werner; or, The Inheritance: A Tragedy . ■ 716
Canto the Twelfth 83s Canto the Thirteenth 838
Canto the Fourteenth • 843
Canto the Fifteenth 846
Canto the Sixteenth 851
A SERIES OF POEMS, ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED.
[first published in 1807.]
** M7jt' ap /j.6 fj.d\' aluee /urJTe Tt veueei." — Homer, Iliad, x. 249. " He whistled as he went, for want of thought." — Drvden. " Virginibus puerisque canto." — Horace, lib. 3, ode 1.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE
FREDERICK, EARL OF CARLISLE,
KNIGHT OF THE GARTER, ETC., ETC.,
THE SECOND EDITION OF THESE POEMS IS INSCRIBED,
BY HIS
OBLIGING WARD AND AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN,1
THE AUTHOR.
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