CONTENTS.

HOURS OF IDLENESS :—

Preface

On the Death 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 "

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On leaving Newstead Abbey-" Through thy battlements
Answer to Lines written in "Letters to an Italian Nun and
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"

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"

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

"Think'st thou I saw

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When I hear you express'

"Oh! when shall the grave

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

votive pledge'

The First Kiss of Love-" Away with your fictions

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

are those honours".

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

Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss Cha-

worth-Hills of Annesley"

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"

To M-Oh! did those eyes'

Woman-"Woman! experience might'

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

Mary, on receiving her Picture-This faint"

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To Lesbia-" Lesbia! since far from you'

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Lines addressed to a Young Lady, alarmed by a bullet hiss-
ing near her "Doubtless, sweet girl"

Love's last Adieu-" The roses of love"

Damætas-" In law an infant

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To Marion-" Marion! why that pensive brow

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

braided with his own-" These locks

Oscar of Alva. A Tale-" How sweetly shines

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

Translation from the Medea of Euripides-"When fierce"

Thoughts suggested by a College Examination-“ High in

the midst'

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

The Cornelian-" No specious splendour".

An Occasional Prologue to "The Wheel of Fortune

"Since the refinement"

On the Death of Mr. Fox, with the Author's Reply—“ Oh

factious viper"

The Tear-" When Friendship or Love"

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

of his Mistress-" Why, Pigot, complain'

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

To Eliza-" Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect

Lachin y Gair-"Away, ye gay landscapes"

To Romance-"Parent of golden dreams"

Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the

Author-" Candour compels me

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

Childish Recollections-" When slow disease"

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

-"Montgomery! true, the common lot"

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

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

you tell me

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

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

To a Lady-" Oh! had my fate

"I would I were a careless child'

"When I roved a young Highlander".

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

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

Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow

-"Spot of my youth'

Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull—“ Start

not-nor deem

On revisiting Harrow-" Here once engaged'

ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS

Postscript to the Second Edition

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

To Florence-"Oh Lady! when I left".

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

Stanzas written on passing the Ambracian Gulf-" Through

cloudless skies".

"The spell is broke, the charm is flown"

Reply to Lines written in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus

"The modest bard"

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"Maid of Athens, ere we part

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos" If, in the

month "

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Lines written beneath a Picture-" Dear object'

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Translation of the famous Greek War Song-" Sons of the

Greeks"

Translation of the Romaic Song-" I enter thy garden"

THE CURSE OF MINERVA

On Parting-" The kiss, dear maid"

To Thyrza-" Without a stone

'Away, away, ye notes of woe

"One struggle more, and I am free"

Euthanasia " When Time, or soon or late

"And thou art dead, as young as fair"

"If sometimes in the haunts of men

On a Cornelian Heart-" Ill-fated heart"

Lines to a Lady Weeping-" Weep, daughter

"The chain I gave was fair to view"

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To Samuel Rogers, Esq.-" Absent or present

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Address, spoken at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, Satur-

day, October 10, 1812-" In one dread night'

Verses found in a Summer-house at Hales-Owen-" When

Dryden's fool"

"Thou art not false, but thou art fickle"

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"Remember him, whom passion's power".

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THE GIAOUR: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

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Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend-" When, from the heart" 182

THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS: A Turkish Tale.

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To Genevra-" Thine eyes' blue tenderness"

THE CORSAIR..

Stanzas for Music-" I speak not, I trace not".

Fill the goblet again! for I never before

Address intended to have been spoken at the Caledonian Meet-

ing, 1814-" Who hath not glow'd"

LARA: A Tale

Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess of Jersey-" When

the vain triumph'

Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.-

"There is a tear"

To Belshazzar-" Belshazzar! from the banquet'

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HEBREW MELODIES-

66 She walks in beauty"

"The harp the monarch minstrel swept

"If that high world"

"The wild gazelle"

"Oh! weep for those

"On Jordan's banks"

Jephtha's Daughter-" Since our Country'

"Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom'

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My soul is dark"

"I saw thee weep'

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Thy days are done

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Song of Saul before his last battle-" Warriors and chiefs'

Saul-" Thou whose spell"

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All is Vanity-" Fame, wisdom, love

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"When coldness wraps this suffering clay"

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Vision of Belshazzar-" The King was on his throne'

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"Sun of the sleepless "

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"Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be

Herod's Lament for Mariamne- "Oh! Mariamne "

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By the Rivers of Babylon-"We sate down and wept

Destruction of Sennacherib- -" The Assyrian came

"A spirit pass'd before me

Stanzas for Music-"There be none"

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.....

Stanzas for Music-" There's not a joy'

On the day of the Destruction of Jerusalem-" From the

last hill

Stanzas to Augusta-" When all around"

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THE PRISONER OF CHILLON..

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Monody on the Death of Sheridan-" When the last sunshine" 358

Stanzas to Augusta-" Though the day"

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Epistle to Augusta-" My sister! my sweet sister'

To Lake Leman-" Rousseau-Voltaire, &c."

Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill-

sad"

Churchill's Grave-" I stood beside the grave

Prometheus- Titan! to whose immortal eyes"

A Fragment-" Could I remount"

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'Bright be the place of thy soul"

Stanzas for Music-" They say that hope

THE LAMENT OF TASSO...

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