Preface

Poems on Various Occasions

Bibliographical Note to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Hours of Idleness and Other Early Poems

Fugitive Pieces

To E 1

On the Death of a Young Lady 1 , Cousin to the Author, and very dear to Him

To D 1

The Curse of Minerva

The Waltz

a new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations




Volume 1.


edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Poems on Various Occasions: facsimile of title page and Byron's disclaimer
• Bibliographical Note to 'Hours of Idleness' and Other Early Poems
• • facsimiles of title pages of two different editions
• Bibliographical Note to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
• • facsimile of title page of English Bards, including Byron's signature
• Hours of Idleness and other Early Poems
• • Fugitive Pieces
  • • On Leaving Newstead Abbey
    • To E——
    • On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and very dear to Him
    • To D——
    • To Caroline
    • To Caroline
    • To Emma
    • Fragments of School Exercises: From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus
    • Lines written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, by J.J. Rousseau: Founded on Facts"
    • Answer to the Foregoing, Addressed to Miss——
    • On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
    • Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
    • Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying
    • A Fragment
    • To Caroline
    • To Caroline
    • On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806
    • Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination
    • To Mary, on Receiving Her Picture
    • On the Death of Mr. Fox
    • To a Lady who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with his own, and appointed a Night in December to meet him in the Garden
    • To a Beautiful Quaker
    • To Lesbia!
    • To Woman
    • An Occasional Prologue, Delivered by the Author Previous to the Performance of "The Wheel of Fortune" at a Private Theatre
    • To Eliza
    • The Tear
    • Reply to some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of his Mistress
    • Granta. A Medley
    • To the Sighing Strephon
    • The Cornelian
    • To M——
    • Lines Addressed to a Young Lady. [As the Author was discharging his Pistols in a Garden, Two Ladies passing near the spot were alarmed by the sound of a Bullet hissing near them, to one of whom the following stanzas were addressed the next morning]
    • Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam
    • Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus
    • Imitation of Tibullus. Sulpicia ad Cerinthum
    • Translation from Catullus. Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque
    • Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen
  • Poems on Various Occasions
  • • To M. S. G.
    • Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of CamoËns
    • To M. S. G.
    • Translation from Horace. Justum et tenacem, etc.
    • The First Kiss of Love
    • Childish Recollections
    • Answer to a Beautiful Poem, Written by Montgomery, Author of The Wanderer in Switzerland, etc., entitled The Common Lot
    • Love's Last Adieu
    • Lines Addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher, on his advising the Author to mix more with Society
    • Answer to some Elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author, complaining that one of his descriptions was rather too warmly drawn
    • Elegy on Newstead Abbey.
  • Hours of Idleness
  • • To George, Earl Delawarr
    • DamÆtas
    • To Marion
    • Oscar of Alva
    • Translation from Anacreon. Ode 1
    • From Anacreon. Ode 3
    • The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus. A Paraphrase from the Æneid, Lib. 9
    • Translation from the Medea of Euripides [L. 627-660]
    • Lachin y Gair
    • To Romance
    • The Death of Calmar and Orla
    • To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
    • To a Lady
  • Poems Original and Translated
  • • When I Roved a Young Highlander
    • To the Duke of Dorset
    • To the Earl of Clare
    • I would I were a Careless Child
    • Lines Written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
  • Early Poems from Various Sources
  • • Fragment, Written Shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth. First published in Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, 1830, i. 56
    • Remembrance. First published in Works of Lord Byron, 1832, vii. 152
    • To a Lady Who Presented the Author with the Velvet Band which bound her Tresses. Works, 1832, vii. 151
    • To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics. MS. Newstead
    • Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country. MS. Newstead
    • L'AmitiÉ est L'Amour sans Ailes. Works, 1832, vii. 161
    • The Prayer of Nature. Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 106
    • Translation from Anacreon. Ode 5. MS. Newstead
    • Ossian's Address to the Sun in "Carthon." MS. Newstead
    • Pignus Amoris. MS. Newstead
    • A Woman's Hair. Works, 1832, vii. 151
    • Stanzas to Jessy. Monthly Literary Recreations, July, 1807
    • The Adieu. Works, 1832, vii. 195
    • To——MS. Newstead
    • On the Eyes of Miss A—— H—— MS. Newstead
    • To a Vain Lady. Works, 1832, vii. 199
    • To Anne. Works, 1832, vii. 201
    • Egotism. A Letter to J.T. Becher. MS. Newstead
    • To Anne. Works, 1832, vii. 202
    • To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning, "'Sad is my verse,' you say, 'and yet no tear.'" Works, 1832, vii. 202
    • On Finding a Fan. Works, 1832, 203
    • Farewell to the Muse. Works, 1832, vii. 203
    • To an Oak at Newstead. Works, 1832, vii. 206
    • On Revisiting Harrow. Letters and Journals, i. 102
    • To my Son. Letters and Journals, i. 104
    • Queries to Casuists. MS. Newstead
    • Song. Breeze of the Night. MS. Lovelace
    • To Harriet. MS. Newstead
    • There was a Time, I need not name. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 200
    • And wilt Thou weep when I am low? Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 202
    • Remind me not, Remind me not. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 197
    • To a Youthful Friend. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 185
    • Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull. First published, Childe Harold, Cantos i., ii. (Seventh Edition), 1814
    • Well! Thou art Happy. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 192
    • Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 190
    • To a Lady, On Being asked my reason for quitting England in the Spring. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 195
    • Fill the Goblet Again. A Song. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 204
    • Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England. Imitations and Translations, 1809, p. 227
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
  • • Preface
    • Introduction
    • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
    • Postscript to the Second Edition
    • Hints from Horace
    • • Introduction
      • Hints from Horace
  • The Curse of Minerva
  • • Notes to this edition
    • Introduction
    • The Curse of Minerva
  • The Waltz
  • • Introduction
    • Note to this edition
    • Preface
    • The Waltz