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SIR WALTER SCOTT, LORD JEFFREY, PROFESSOR WILSON,
WILLIAM GIFFORD, REV. GEORGE CRABBE, BISHOP HEBER,
Contents.
Page
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CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.
CAIN; A MYSTERY
- 316
PREFACE to the First and Second Cantos ] DEDICATION
ib.
To LANTHE
2 PREFACE
CANTO I.
3 WERNER; Or, The INHERITANCE: A TRAGEDY 341
CANTO IL.
16
DEDICATION
CAXTO III.
28
PREFACE
CANTO IV.
41
ib. HOURS OF IDLENESS; A SERIES OF POEMS,
ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED
375
THE GIAOUR; A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH
TALE
62
On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to
ADVERTISEMENT
the Author, and very dear to him . 376
THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS; A TURKISH TALE 77
To E
377
To D-
THE CORSAIR; A TALE
89 Epitaph on a Friend
ib. A Fragment
378
LARA; A TALE
On leaving Newstead Abbey
. 108
Lines written in “Letters of an Italian
THE SLEGE OF CORINTH
· 120
Nun and an English Gentleman; by J.
J. Rousseau : founded on Facts"
379
Answer to the foregoing, addressed to
PARISINA
131
Miss
ib. Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying - ib.
Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam ib.
THE PRISONER OF CHILLON; A FABLE 138
Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and
Sonnet to Chillon
Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus
Imitation of Tibullus. “Sulpicia ad Cerin-
BEPPO; A VENETIAN STORY
• 142
thum”
MAZEPPA
153
Translation from Catullus. “Lugete Ve-
neres, Cupidinesque,” &c.
THE ISLAND; OR, CHRISTIAN AND HIS COM-
Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen
161 Translation from Horace. “ Justum et te-
nacem," &c.
380
From Anacreon. « Θελω λεγειν Ατρειδας.” ι.
MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM
- 175
From Anacreon.“ MEGOVUXTIais 7o8' ápass." ib.
MARINO FALLERO, DOGE OF VENICE;
From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus.
Ax HISTORICAL TRAGEDY
· 193
«Μηδαμο και πάντα νέμων, κ. τ. λ.”
To Emma
- 381
HEAVEN AND EARTH; A MYSTERY . 232 To M. S. G.
SARDANAPALUS; A TRAGEDY
To Caroline
244
To the Same
• 382
Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of
THE TWO FOSCARI; AN HISTORICAL TRA-
Camoëns
GEDY
277
The First Kiss of Love
383
THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED; A
On a Change of Masters at a great Public
DRAMA
300
School
ib. To the Duke of Dorset
RADES
Fragment, written shortly after the Mar-
When I roved a young Highlander
416
riage of Miss Chaworth
384 To George, Earl Delawarr
417
Granta. A Medley
385 To the Earl of Clare
On a distant View of the Village and School
Lines written beneath an Elm in the Church-
of Harrow on the Hill
- 386
yard of Harrow
418
To M
ib. Article on the “Hours of Idleness," from
To Woman
• 387
the Edinburgh Review
419
To M. S. G.
ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEW.
To Mary, on receiving her Picture
ERS; A SATIRE
420
To Lesbia
Lines addressed to a young Lady, who was
alarmed at the Sound of a Bullet hissing
HINTS FROM HORACE; BEING AN ALLU-
near her
388
SION IN ENGLISH VERSE TO THE EPISTLE
Love's last Adieu
“ AD PISONES, DE ARTE POETICA"
437
Damætas
· 389 THE CURSE OF MINERVA
- 453
To Marion
To a Lady who presented to the Author a
THE WALTZ; An A POSTROPHIC HYMN 457
Lock of Hair braided with his Own ib,
TO THE PUBLISHER
Oscar of Alva. A Tale
- 390 ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE
460
The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus - 393
HEBREW MELODIES
463
Translation from the Medea of Euripides,
She walks in Beauty
464
Ερωτες υπερ μεν αγαν, κ. τ. λ.”
396
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept ib.
Thoughts suggested by a College Examin-
If that high World
ation
. 397
The wild Gazelle
To a beautiful Quaker
Oh! weep for those
The Cornelian
398
On Jordan's Banks
An Occasional Prologue to “ The Wheel of
Jephtha's Daughter
Fortune"
Oh ! snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom ib.
On the Death of Mr. Fox
- 399
My Soul is dark
The Tear
I saw thee weep
465
Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot,
Thy Days are done
Esq. on the Cruelty of his Mistress 400
Song of Saul before his last Battle
To the sighing Strephon
Saul
To Eliza
Lachin y Gair
“All is Vanity, saith the Preacher
- 466
- 401
To Romance
When Coldness wraps this suffering Clay
Vision of Belshazzar
Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a
Friend to the Author, complaining that
Sun of the Sleepless
one of his Descriptions was rather too
Were my Bosom as false as thou deem'st it
warmly drawn
402
to be
467
Elegy on Newstead Abbey
Herod's Lament for Mariamne
Childish Recollections
404
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem
Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled “ The
by Titus
Common Lot"
409
By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and
To a Lady who presented the Author with
wept
the Velvet Band which bound her Tresses 410
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Remembrance
A Spirit pass'd before me. From Job 468
Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, DOMESTIC PIECES 1816
- 468
on his advising the Author to mix more
Fare thee Well
with Society
A Sketch
469
The Death of Calmar and Orla. An Imi-
Stanzas to Augusta. “When all around grew
tation of Macpherson's Ossian
411
drear and dark ”
470
L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes
412 Stanzas to Augusta. “ Though the Day of
The Prayer of Nature
- 413
my Destiny's over
To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
414 Epistle to Augusta. “My Sister ! my sweet
Oh I had my fate been join'd with thine! - 415
Sister ! if a Name "
I would I were a careless Child
ib. Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill 472
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