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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
BEQUEST OF

MRS. MARY DALTON

AUG. 1, 1928

7341 51-209

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INSTEAD of an excuse, the Publishers have to offer a congratula tion to the Public upon being enabled, by the lapse of copyrights, to add most of the Poetical Works of Byron to their cheap, but elegant series of our most esteemed poets. This volume contains all Lord Byron's Poems of which the copyright is free, with the exception of Don Juan, from which extraordinary work, as it is their wish that their books should be welcomed in every family circle, they have only presented carefully-selected beautiful passages, with which English readers are so well acquainted, that they would naturally look for them.

CONTENTS.

HOURS OF IDLENESS :-

Preface

On the ath of a Young Lady--"Hush'd are the winds"

To E-"Let folly smile"

To D" In thee I fondly hoped "

...

Epitaph on a Friend-" Oh, friend! for ever"

A Fragment-"When to their airy hall "

Page 1

On leaving Newstead Abbey-"Through thy battlements".

Answer to Lines written in "Letters to an Italian Nun and

5

..

an English Gentleman," &c. -" Dear simple girl".

Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying-"Ah! gentle"..

Translation from Catullus" Equal to Jove"

Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus-" He who

sublime"

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7

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Imitation of Tibullus-" Cruel Cerinthus"

Translation from Catullus-" Ye Cupids"

Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen" Oh! might I kiss"

Translation from Horace "The man of firm and noble soul"

From Anacreon-" I wish to tune"

-"""Twas now the hour"

the Prometheus Vinctus, &c.-" Great Jove"

To Emma" Since now the hour"

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دو

M. S. G.-" Whene'er I view those lips"

12

Caroline" Think'st thou I saw"

13

"

-"When I hear you express"

14

-"Oh! when shall the grave"

14

Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens-"This

votive pledge"

15

The First Kiss of Love-" Away with your fictions "

15

On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School-" Where

are those honours"

16

To the Duke of Dorset "Dorset! whose early steps".

Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss Cha-

17

worth-" Hills of Annesley"

19

Granta. A Medley-"Oh! could Le Sage's"

On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow-on-

the-Hill-"Ye scenes of my childhood"

M. S. G.-" When I dream that you love me

"

24

Mary, on receiving her Picture-" This faint"

24

HOURS OF IDLENESS-continued.

To Lesbia-" Lesbia! since far from you”.

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Lines addressed to a Young Lady, alarmed by a bullet hiss-

To Marion-" Marion! why that pensive brow"

28

To a Lady who presented to the Author a Lock of Hair

braided with his own- "These locks"

30

Oscar of Alva. A Tale-" How sweetly shines".

31

The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus-" Nisus, the guardian" 38

Translation from the Medea of Euripides-" When fierce"

46

Thoughts suggested by a College Examination-" High in

the midst"

47

To a beautiful Quaker-"Sweet girl! though only once 49

The Cornelian-" No specious splendour".

"

50

An Occasional Prologue to "The Wheel of Fortune"-

"Since the refinement"

50

...

On the Death of Mr. Fox, with the Author's Reply-" Oh

factious viper"

51

The Tear-" When Friendship or Love"

52

Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty

of his Mistress-"Why, Pigot, complain".

53

To the sighing Strephon-" Your pardon, my friend"

To Eliza Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect"

55

Lachin y Gair-" Away, ye gay landscapes"

55

To Romance-"Parent of golden dreams"

56

Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the

Author-" Candour compels me"

58

Elegy on Newstead Abbey" Newstead! fast-falling".... 59

Childish Recollections" When slow disease"

63

Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled "The Common Lot"

-"Montgomery! true, the common lot"

71

Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, on his advising

the Author to mix more with Society-"Dear Becher,

you tell me "

72

The Death of Calmar and Orla-" Dear are the days"

73

To Edward Noel Long, Esq. -" Dear Long, in this"

To George, Earl Delawar-" Oh! yes, I will own".

81

To the Earl of Clare-" Friend of my youth"

82

Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow

-"Spot of my youth"

84

Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull-" Start

not-nor deem "

Lines written in an Album at Malta-" As o'er the cold".... 115

To Florence" Oh Lady! when I left".

115

Stanzas composed during a Thunder-storm-"Chill and mirk" 116