THEU A DO MERCADO

RIO DE JANEL

POETICAL WORKS

OF

LORD BYRON.

NEW EDITION.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.-VOL. III.

MISCELLANIES.-VOL. I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1873.

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

HOURS OF IDLENESS; A SERIES OF POEMS, ORIGINAL AND

TRANSLATED

Dedication

Preface

Article on the "Hours of Idleness" from the Edinburgh

Review

Introduction

On the Death of a young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and

very dear to him

To E-

To D-

Epitaph on a Friend

A Fragment

On leaving Newstead Abbey

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

Adrian's Address to his Soul when dying

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C.D. TRANSFER JUN 12 1941

Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam

Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domi-

tius Marsus

Imitation of Tibullus. "Sulpicia ad Cerinthum."-Lib. 4

Translation from Catullus. "Lugete, Veneres, Cupidinesque," &c.

Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen

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HOURS OF IDLENESS-Continued.

Translation from Horace. "Justum et tenacem," &c.

From Anacreon.

“ Θελω λεγειν Ατρείδας," κ. τ. λ.

From Anacreon.

« Μεσονυκτίαις ποθ' ώραις," κ. τ. λ.

From the Prometheus Vinetus of Æschylus. “ Μηδαμ' ὁ πάντα

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Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns

On a Change of Masters at a great Public School

To the Duke of Dorset

Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth

Granta. A Medley

On a distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the

Hill

To M

To Woman

To M. S. G.

To Mary, on receiving her Picture

To Lesbia

Lines addressed to a young Lady, who was alarmed at the

Sound of a Bullet hissing near her

To a Lady who presented to the Author & Lock of Hair braided

Translation from the Medea of Euripides. “Έρωτες υπες μεν

HOURS OF IDLENESS-continued.

An Occasional Prologue to "The Wheel of Fortune'

On the Death of Mr. Fox

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Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty

Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author,

complaining that one of his Descriptions was rather too

warmly drawn

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Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled "The Common Lot"

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To a Lady who presented the Author with the Velvet Band

which bound her Tresses

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Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, on his advising the

Author to mix more with Society

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Remembrance

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The Death of Calmar and Orla. An Imitation of Macpherson's

Ossian

Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow

Notes