Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Byron

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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 Preface The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of The Works of Lord Byron, in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. That edition followed the text of the successive issues of plays and poems which appeared in the author's lifetime, and were subject to his own revision, or that of Gifford and other accredited readers. A more or less thorough collation of the printed volumes with the MSS. which were at Moore's disposal, yielded a number of variorum readings which have appeared in subsequent editions published by John Murray. Fresh collations of the text of individual poems with the original MSS. have been made from time to time, with the result that the text of the latest edition (one-vol. 8vo, 1891) includes some emendations, and has been supplemented by additional variants. Textual errors of more or less importance, which had crept into the numerous editions which succeeded the seventeen-volume edition of 1832, were in some instances corrected, but in others passed over. For the purposes of the present edition the printed text has been collated with all the MSS. which passed through Moore's hands, and, also, for the first time, with MSS. of the following plays and poems, viz. English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; Childe Harold, Canto IV.; Don Juan, Cantos VI.-XVI.; Werner ; The Deformed Transformed ; Lara; Parisina; The Prophecy of Dante; The Vision of Judgment ; The Age of Bronze ; The Island. The only works of any importance which have been printed directly from the text of the first edition, without reference to the MSS., are the following, which appeared in The Liberal (1822-23), viz.: Heaven and Earth, The Blues, and Morgante Maggiore. A new and, it is believed, an improved punctuation has been adopted. In this respect Byron did not profess to prepare his MSS. for the press, and the punctuation, for which Gifford is mainly responsible, has been reconsidered with reference solely to the meaning and interpretation of the sentences as they occur. In the Hours of Idleness and Other Early Poems , the typography of the first four editions, as a rule, has been preserved. A uniform typography in accordance with modern use has been adopted for all poems of later date. Variants, being the readings of one or more MSS. or of successive editions, are [included as alphabetical footnotes to each poem —html Ed.] Words and lines through which the author has drawn his pen in the MSS. or Revises are marked MS. erased. Poems and plays are given, so far as possible, in chronological order. Childe Harold and Don Juan, which were written and published in parts, are printed continuously; and minor poems, including the first fou