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The poems and dramas of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Byron · 1884 · Scanned text · Free in the US

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Language
English
Published
1884
Length
589,162 words · about 41 h 15 min
Sections
124 reader sections
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Contents (124)
  1. Front matter about 31 min
  2. Contents about 7 min
  3. Canto the Eleventh 723 Canto the f welfLh 732 under 1 min
  4. Preface To The First Edition about 26 min
  5. II Or agitates his anxious breast about 4 h 3 min
  6. III about 31 min
  7. IV about 1 min
  8. V about 1 min
  9. VI about 1 min
  10. VII about 1 min
  11. VIII about 1 min
  12. IX about 3 min
  13. Preface To The Third Edition about 2 h 12 min
  14. Preface about 8 min
  15. X under 1 min
  16. XI under 1 min
  17. XII about 1 min
  18. XIV under 1 min
  19. XV under 1 min
  20. XVI under 1 min
  21. XVII. But ere he could return to his repose about 1 h 8 min
  22. Preface To The First And Second Cantos about 6 min
  23. CANTO THE FIRST. Oh, thou! in Hellas deem'd of heavenly about 8 min
  24. XIX. The horrid crags, by toppling convent under 1 min
  25. XX under 1 min
  26. XXI about 1 min
  27. XXII under 1 min
  28. XXIII under 1 min
  29. XXIV about 1 min
  30. XXV. Convention is the dwarfish demon styled under 1 min
  31. XXVI under 1 min
  32. XXVII under 1 min
  33. XXVIII under 1 min
  34. XXIX under 1 min
  35. XXX. O'er vales that teem with fruits, romantic under 1 min
  36. XXXI under 1 min
  37. XXXII about 1 min
  38. XXXIV. But ere the mingling bounds have far been under 1 min
  39. XXXV. Oh, lovely Spain ! renown'd, romantic land ! about 1 min
  40. XXXVII under 1 min
  41. XXXVIII. Hark! heard you not those hoofs of dreads under 1 min
  42. XXXIX under 1 min
  43. XL under 1 min
  44. XLI under 1 min
  45. XLII. There shall they rot — Ambition's honor'd under 1 min
  46. XLIII. O Albuera, glorious field of grief! [steed under 1 min
  47. XLIV under 1 min
  48. XLV under 1 min
  49. XLVI about 36 min
  50. XLVII about 1 min
  51. XLIX about 21 min
  52. Canto The Third about 46 min
  53. CANTO THE FOURTH. Quel Monte che divide, e quel che serra about 2 h 3 min
  54. Canto The First about 18 min
  55. CANTO THE SECOND. The winds are high on Helle's wave about 30 min
  56. CANTO THE FIRST. " nessun maggior dolore about 24 min
  57. Canto The Second about 23 min
  58. CANTO THE THIRD. 'Come vedi — ancor non m'abbandona." — Dante about 27 min
  59. CANTO THE FIRST. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide about 23 min
  60. Canto The Second about 2 h 26 min
  61. CANTO THE FIRST. I. jIn furrows form'd by that majestic plough about 8 min
  62. Canto The Second about 21 min
  63. CANTO THE THIRD. The fight was o'er; the flashing through the about 9 min
  64. Canto The Fourth about 26 min
  65. Dedication about 3 min
  66. Canto The First about 8 min
  67. CANTO THE SECOND. The Spirit of the fervent days of Old about 5 min
  68. Canto The Third about 7 min
  69. Canto The Fourth about 9 min
  70. CANTO THE FIRST. In the beginning was the Word next God about 25 min
  71. Canto The Fifth about 2 min
  72. Scene I. — Manfred alone. — Scene y a Gothic Gallery. — Time, Midnight about 8 min
  73. Scene II about 5 min
  74. Act II about 12 min
  75. SCENE III. — The Summil of the Jungfrau Mountain about 9 min
  76. Scene I. — A Hallin the Castle <?/" Manfred. Manfred and Herman about 6 min
  77. Scene II. — Another Chamber. Manfred a7td Herman about 4 min
  78. Scene IV.. — Interior of the Tower. Manfred alone about 16 min
  79. Scene I. — An Antechamber in the Ducal Palace. Pietro speaks, in entering, to Battista about 1 min
  80. Scene II. — The Ducal Chamber about 51 min
  81. ACT III. Scene I : — Scene, the Space between the Canal about 26 min
  82. Act IV about 26 min
  83. Act V about 25 min
  84. Scene Iii.] Marino Faliero, Doge Of Venice about 13 min
  85. Scene I. — A Hall in the Palace. Salemenes \solus\ He hath wronged his about 2 min
  86. Scene II about 28 min
  87. Act II about 24 min
  88. ACT III. Scene I. — The hall of the Palace illuminated about 18 min
  89. Act IV about 23 min
  90. Act V about 19 min
  91. Act I about 15 min
  92. Act II about 17 min
  93. Act III about 17 min
  94. Act IV about 14 min
  95. Act V about 19 min
  96. ACT I, Scene I. — The Land without Paradise about 21 min
  97. ACT II. Scene I. — The Abyss of Space about 47 min
  98. PART I. Scene l.—A woody and mountainous district about 9 min
  99. Scene III about 51 min
  100. Scene I.] Werner about 22 min
  101. Scene II. — The Apartment of ^^^^y.y., in the Palace. Efiter Josephine and Ulric about 17 min
  102. ACT III. Scene I. — A Hall in the same Palace, from about 15 min
  103. Scene III. — The secret Passage about 1 min
  104. Scene IV. — A Garden about 6 min
  105. Scene I. — A Gothic Hall in the Castle of Siegendorf^ 7tear Prague. Enter Eric and Henrick, Retainers of the Court about 21 min
  106. ACT V. Scene I. — A large and magnificent Gothic\^ about 19 min
  107. Scene II. — The Interior of the Turret. Gabor and Siegendorf about 36 min
  108. Part II about 13 min
  109. Scene Iii.] The Deformed Transformed about 4 min
  110. Part III about 1 min
  111. Scene 1.] The Deformed Transformed about 1 min
  112. Canto The First. Fragment about 1 h 9 min
  113. Canto The Second. III about 1 h 1 min
  114. Canto The Third about 35 min
  115. Canto The Fourth about 34 min
  116. CANTO THE FIFTH. When amatory poets sing their loves about 47 min
  117. Preface To Cantos VI., VII., And VIII. 1823 about 4 min
  118. Canto The Sixth. I about 34 min
  119. Canto The Seventh about 24 min
  120. Canto The Eighth about 40 min
  121. Canto The Ninth. I about 24 min
  122. Canto The Tenth. I about 26 min
  123. Canto The Eleventh about 27 min
  124. Canto The Twelfth. 1823 about 2 h 33 min

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Front matter

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Contents

Hours of Idleness i

On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the

Author 3

Canto the Eleventh 723 Canto the f welfLh 732

Canto the Thirteenth , . ., 74 1

Canto the Fourteenth 753

Canto the Fifteenth 761

Caa to the Sixteenth 7/7:

A SERIES OF POEMS, ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. [first published in 1807. J

" Vlrginibus puerisque canto.'* — Horace, lib. iii. Ode i. «' M^T ap fxe fj,d\* aivee, firfre Tt vetKet."— Homer, liiad, x. 249. •* He whistled as he went, for want of thought." — Dryden.

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

FREDERICK, EARL OF CARLISLE,

KNIGHT OF THE GARTER, ETC., ETC., THE SECOND EDITION OF THESE POEMS IS INSCRIBED.

BY HIS OBLIGED WARD AND AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN,

THE AUTHOR.

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