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Title: Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1

Author: Byron

Editor: Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Posting Date: February 22, 2015 [EBook #8861]
Release Date: September, 2005
First Posted: August 15, 2003

Language: English

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Byron's Poetical Works

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

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