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CONTENTS
9
HOURS OF IDLENESS :-
Pryface
l'age 1
Ou tie ath of a Young Lady-.“ Hush'd are the winii"
To E-"Jiet folly smile"
To D—-" In thee I fondly hoped
Epitaph on a Friend—“Oh, friend! for ever
A Fragment—"When to their airy hall "
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".
6
Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying—Ah! gentle 7
Translation from Catullus—"Equal to Jove'
7
Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus—" He who
sublime
8
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"
10
the Prometheus Vinctus, &c. -"Great Jove"
To Emma—“Since now the hour"
11
M. S. G.–“Whene'er I view those lips
12
Caroline .“ Think'st thou I saw
13
" When I hear you express
14
“Oh! when shall the grava
Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Canoens-- " This
votive pledge"
15
The First Kiss of Love" Away with your fictions
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School -" Where
are those honours"
16
To the Duke of Dorset "Dorset ! whose early steps
17
Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss ('ha-
worth—“ Hills of Annesley"
19
Granta. A Medley—“ Oh ! could Le Sage's"
Cu a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow-on-
the-Hill-—" Ye scenes of my childhood"
22
To M—“Oh! did those eyes
23
Woman—" Woman! experience might”
M. S. G.-" When I dream that
you love me
24
» Mary, on receiving her Picture - This faint,"
2
BOURS OF IDLENESS-continued.
To Lesbia--" Lesbia! since far from you"
Page 25
Lines addressed to a Young Lady, alarmed by a bullet hise-
ing near her-" Doubtless, sweet girl
26
Love's last Adieu-.“ The roses of love"
27
Vamætas-" In law an infant”
28
To Marion—" Marion! why that pensive brow
To a Lady who presented to the Author a Look of Hair braided with his own—" These locks"
30 Oscar of Alva. A Tale—“ How sweetly shines".
31
The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus—"Nisus, the guardian 38
Translation from the Medea of Euripides—"When fierce 46
Thoughts suggested by a College Examination—" High in
the midst
47
To a beautiful Quaker-"Sweet girl! though only once 49
The Cornelian--" No specious splendour
50
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”
51
The Tear-" When Friendship or Love
52
Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq;, on the Cruelty
of his Mistress—" Why, Pigot, complain
53
To the sighing Strephon=“Your pardon, my friend". 54
To Eliza" Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect
55
Lachin y Gair—"Away, ye gay landscapes
To Romance—“ Parent of golden dreams
56
Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the
Author—“ Candour compels me
58
Elegy on Newstead Abbey—“Newstead ! fast-falling 59
Childish Recollections—" When slow disease'
63
Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled “ The Common Lot"
-“ Montgomery! true, the common lot”.
71
Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, on his advising
the Author to mix more with Society" Dear Becher,
you tell me
72
The Death of Calmar and Orla—"Dear are the days" 73
To Edward Noel Long, Esq. -“ Dear Long, in this
76
To a Lady—“Oh! had my fate"
78
"I would I were a careless child
79
“ When I roved a young Highlander”
To George, Earl Delawar- Oh! yes, I will own
81 To the Earl of Clare" Friend of my youth”
82
Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
L“ Spot of my youth”
84
Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull" Start
not-nor deem
85
On revisiting Harrow_" Here once engaged
86
ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS
87
Postscript to the Second Edition
114
Lines written in an Album at Malta—" As o'er the cold" 115
To Florenco" Oh Lady! when I left”.
115
Stanzas composed during a Thunder-storm-"Chill and mirk" 116
..
. . . . . .
Stanzas written on passing the Ambracian Gulf—“Through cloudless skies"
Puge lle
“The spell is broke, the charm is flown"
11&
Reply to Lines written in the Travellers' Bock at Orchomenus
-“The modest bard”
119
" Maid of Athens, ero we part
US
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos -“ If, in the
inonth
120
Lines written beneath a Picture—“Dear object”
Translation of the famous Greek War Song—“Sons of the
Greeks”
121
Translation of the Romaic Song—“I enter thy garden
122
THE CURSE OF MINERVA
123
On Parting_" The kiss, dear maid"
129
To Thyrza—" Without a stone".
130
Away, away, ye notes of woe
131
"One struggle more, and I am free
132
Euthanasia" When Time, or soon or late'
133
" And thou art dead, as young as fair”
134
“ If sometimes in the haunts of men
136
On a Cornelian Heart,“ Ill-fated heart"
137
Lines to a Lady Weeping—“Weep, daughter
“ The chain I gave was fair to view
To Samuel Rogers, Esq.-“ Absent or present
138
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”
140
THE Waltz: an Apostrophic Hymn
)41
To Time_“Time! on whose arbitrary wing
148
“ Thou art not false, but thou art fickle”
149
“ Remember him, whom passior's power”
150
THE GIAOUR: A Fragment of a Turkish Talo
152
Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend~" When, from the heart” 182
THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS: A Turkish Tale.
183
To Gonevra—" Thine eyes' blue tenderness"
210
THE CORSAIR...
212
Windsor Poetics—“ Famed for contemptuous"
252
POEMS ON NAPOLEON
253
Stanzas for Music," I speak not, I trace rot
262
“ Fill the goblet again ! for I never before"
202
Address intended to hare been spoken at the Calcional Moct.
ing, 1814—" Who hath not glow'd”
203
LARA: A Tale
265
Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess of Jersey—“ When
the vain triumph
291
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart. -- “ There is a tear"
29 To Belshazzar-"Belshazzar ! from the banquet
Who
LEBREW MELODIES--
She walks in beauty".
Page 294
“ The harp the monarch minstrel swept"
294
“ If that high world"
295
" The wild gazelle'
“Oh! weep for those"
296
« On Jordan's banks"
Jephtha's Daughter—Since our Country
“Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom
297
“My soul is dark"
" I saw thee weep
298
“ Thy days are done"
Song of Saul before his last battle-"Warriors and chicks' 299
Saul -" Thou whose spell'
299
All is Vanity—“ Fame, wisdom, love".
300
“ When coldness wraps this suffering clay.
Vision of Belshazzar — The King was on his throne 301
“ Sun of the sleepless
302
“Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be
Herod's Lament for Mariamne—“ Oh ! Mariamne"
303
On the day of the Destruction of Jerusalemi—“ From tho
last hill
By the Rivers of Babylor.—“We sate down and wept 304
Destruction of Sennacherib-" The Assyrian came
304
“A spirit pass'd before me"
305
Stanzas for Music-" There be none
THE SIEGE OF CORINTH...
Stanzas for Music—“There's not a joy
328
PARISINA...
330
" Fare thee well ! and if for ever"
343
A Sketch_" Born in the garrot
344
Stanzas to Augusta—" When all around"
346
THE PRISONER OF CAILLON.
348
Monody on the Death of Sheridan_"When the last sunsbice" 358
Stanzas to Augusta -" Though tuo day"
361
Epistle to Augusta—“My sister ! my sweet sister"
362
THE DREAM
365
Darkness-" I had a dream"
369
Churchill's Grave-“I stood beside the grave
371
Prometheus-" Titan! to whose immortal eyes"
372
A Fragment-" Could I remount"
373
To Lake Leman—" Rousseau-Voltaire, &c."
374
Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill- " And thou wort
sad"
MANFRED : A Dramatic Poem
376
“Bright be the place of thy soul”
406
Stanzas for Music—“ They say that hope'
THE LAMENT OF TASSO..
403.
CAIN: A Mystery
414
THE VISION OF JUDGMENT