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Canto IV 212 Appendix 216
Cain 259
Appendix 312
Appendix 341
Sardanapaltjs 348
On leaving Newstead Abbey . . . 413
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On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill .... 414
ToD 414
Epitaph on a Friend .... 415
ToEddleston 415
Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot,
Esq., on the cruelty of his Mistress . 415
To the Sighing Strephon . . . .416 The Tear ..:..•■ 416
Lines written in " Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman. By J. J. Rousseau. Founded on Facts " . . 417
Answer to the foregoing, addressed to Miss 417
The Cornelian 417
On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and very dear to him . 418
To Emma 418
An Occasional Prologue. Delivered previous to the performance of " The Wheel of Fortune " at a private Theatre .
On the Death of Mr. Fox ....
To M. S. G
Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens 420 The first Kiss of Love . . • .421
To Mary 421
To Woman 421
To M. S. G. .
To a Beautiful Quaker
Song ....
To
To Mary, on receiving her Picture .
422 422 422 423 423
To Lesbia 424
Lines addressed to a Young Lady . . 424
Love's Last Adieu 424
Damcetas 425
To Marion 425
Oscar of Alva 425
To the Duke of Dorset . . . .428 Adrian's Address to his Soul, when Dying 429 Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam . 430 Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and
Tibullus. By Domitius Marsus . . 430 Imitation of Tibullus .... 430
Translation from Catullus .... 430 Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen . 430
Translation from Horace. Ode 3, Lib. 3 . 430 Translation from Anacreon. To his Lyre 431
Ode III. 431
Fragments of School Exercises. From the
Prometheus Vinctus of JEschylus . . 431 The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus. A Paraphrase from the JEneid, Lib. IX. . . 431 Translation from the Medea of Euripides 435 Thoughts suggestedby a Colleee Examination 435
To the Earl of 436
Granta. A Medley 437
Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author, complaining that one of his Descriptions was rather too warmly
drawn 438
Lachin Y Gair 439
To Romance 439
Elegy on Newstead Abbey . . . 440 On a change of Masters at a great Public
School 442
Childish Recollections . • • .442
Answer to a beautiful Poem, written by Montgomery, entitled " The Common Lot" . 446 To the Rev. J. T. Becher . . . 447
The Death of Calmar and Orla. An Imitation of Macpherson's Ossian . . 447
To E. N. L., Esq 448
Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow on the Hill, September 2,
1807 450
Critique on " Hours of Idleness," extracted from the Edinburgh Review . . . 451 ExGLisn Bauds and Scotch Reviewers 453 Preface . . . . . ' • • .453
Postscript 467
The Curse of Minerva .... 480
The Waltz 483
To the Publisher 483
Morgante Maggoire .... 503
Canto IV 515 Advertisement 51S
She Walks in Beauty 518
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept . 518
If that High World 518
The Wild Gazelle 518
Oh ! Weep for Those 519
On Jordan's Banks 519
Jephtha's Daughter 519
Oh ! snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom . 519
My Soul is Dark 519
I saw Thee Weep ..... 520 Thy Days are Done ... .520
CONTENTS.
Song of Saul before his last Battle . 520
Saul 520
" All is Vanity, saith the Preacher " . 520
When Coldness wraps this suffering Clay . 521 Vision of Belshazzar .... 521
Sun of the Sleepless ! 521
Were ray Bosom as False as Thou dcem'st it
to be 521
Herod's Lament for Mariamne . . 521
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus 522
By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down arid
The Destruction o£ Sennacherib . . 522
From Job 522
The Lament of Tasso . . . . . 523
Monody on the Death of the Right Hon.
R. B. Sheridan 525
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte . . . 527
Ode on Venice 529
The Dream 530
The Blues 532
Written in an Album 537
Stanzas written in passing the Arabracian Gulf 537 Stanzas composed during the Night, in a
Thunder-Storm 538
Written at Athens 538
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 538
Translation of the famous Greek War Song,
Acvte Tratdes tosv 'E\\>'ii>ujv .... 539 Translation of the Romaic Song, "Mirsvu pes
'to- nipt06\t 'Jlpuitfrarfj X.ar,li) " . . . ,540
Written beneath a Picture . . . 540
On Parting 540
To Thyrza £40
To Thyrza 541
Euthanasia 542
Stanzas. " Heu quanto minus est cum reli-
quis versari quam tui meminisse " . . 542
On a Cornelian Heart which was Broken . 543
To a Youthful Friend .... 543
From the Portuguese .... 544
Impromptu, in reply to a Friend . . 544 Address, spoken at the opening of Drury-
Lane Theatre 544
To Time 545
Translation of a Romaic Love Song . . 545
A Song 546
On being asked what was the " Origin of
Love " 546
Pag.
Remember Him, &c 546
Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a
Skull 547
On the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart. 547
To a Lady weeping 547
From the Turkish! 547
Sonnet. To Gencvra 548
Sonnet. To Gegevra .... 548 Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog 548
Farewell 548
Bright be the Place of thy Soul . . 548
When we Two Parted 549
Fare Thee Well 550
A Sketch 550
Ode. [From the French] .... 551
From the French 552
On the Star of "the Legion of Honor."
[From the French] .... 553
Napoleon's Farewell. [From the French] 553 Written on a blank Leaf of " The Pleasures
of Memory " 554
Sonnet 554
Stanzas to 554
Darkness 554
Churchill's Grave 555
Prometheus 555
The Prayer of Nature 556
Romance muy Doloroso del Sitio y Toma de
Alhama 557
A very mournful Ballad on the Siege and
Conquest of Granada .... 557
Sonetto di Vittorelli. Per Monaca . 559
Translation from Vittorelli. On a Nun . 559
To my dear Mary Anne .... 559
To Miss Chaworth 559
On Revisiting Harrow , 560
L'Amitie est l'Amour sans Ailes . . 560
To my Son ... 561
Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell . 561
To Mrs. * * *, on being asked my reason for
quitting England in the Spring . . 562
A Love Song 562
To the Same 562
Stanzas to * * *, on leaving England . 563
Lines to Mr. Hodgson .... 564 Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus 564
On Moore's Last Operatic Farce . . 565
Epistle to Mr. Hodgson .... 565
On Lord Thurlow's Poems . . . 565
To Lord Thurlow 56-5
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To Thomas Moore 566
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore 566
The Devil's Drive 566
Windsor Poetics 567
Additional Stanzas to the Ode to Napoleon
Bonaparte 567
To Lady Caroline Lamb .... 567
Address intended to be recited at the Caledonian Meeting 568
Ca the Prince Regent's returning the Picture of Sarah, Countess of Jersey, to Mrs. Mee 568
To Belshazzar 569
Lines intended for the opening of " The Siege
of Corinth " 569
Extract from an Unpublished Poem . . 570
To Augusta 570
On the Bust of Helen, by Canova . . 571 Fragment of a Poem on hearing that Lady
Byron was 111 571
To Thomas Moore 572
Stanzas to the River Po 572
Sonnet to George the Fourth . . . 572
Francesca of Rimini 572
The Irish Avatar 573
Stanzas to Her who can best understand Them 574 Stanzas written on the Road between Florence
and Pisa 575
Impromptu, on Lady Blessington expressing
her Intention of taking the Villa called
" II Paradiso," near Genoa . . 575
To the Countess of Blessington . . . 575
On this Day I complete my Thirty-Sixth Year 576
To a Lady who presented the Author with
the Velvet Band which bound her Tresses 576
Pap
576 576
577 578
Remembrance
The Adieu ....
To a Vain Lady
To Anne
To the Same
To the Author of a Sonnet beginning " ' Sad
ismy Verse,' you say, " 'and yet no. Tear' " 578
On Finding a Fan 578
Farewell to the Mus? 579
To an Oak at Newstead .... 579
Lines, on hearing that Lady Byron was 111 579
Stanzas. " Could Love for ever " . . 580
Stanzas. To a Hindoo Air . . . 581
Oh, never talk again to me . . . 5S1 The Third Act of Manfred, in its original
Shape, as first sent to the Publisher . 581
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