Selected Poems

by Byron, George Gordon, Lord

• ISBN13: 9780486277844
• ISBN10: 0486277844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-12
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

The quintessential Romantic, Lord Byron produced some of the most daring poetry of his time, collected here in this revised editionthe only widely available selection to include his own notes on the same page as the poetry.

Table of Contents

Damaetas (ca. 1806)	1	(1)
`I Would I Were a Careless Child' (ca. 1806)	1	(2)
`When We Two Parted' (1808)	3	(1)
Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England (1809)	4	(2)
To Florence (1809)	6	(1)
The Girl of Cadiz (1809)	7	(2)
`Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore' (from Canto the First of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; late 1809)	9	(3)
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (1810)	12	(1)
`Maid of Athens, Ere We Part' (1810)	12	(1)
From Hebrew Melodies (1814/15):
`She Walks in Beauty'	13	(1)
`Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom'	14	(1)
The Destruction of Sennacherib	14	(1)
Stanzas for Music (`They Say That Hope Is Happiness')	15	(1)
Stanzas for Music (``There's Not a Joy the World Can Give'; 1815)	16	(1)
Stanzas for Music (``There Be None of Beauty's Daughters'; March 1816)	17	(1)
Fare Thee Well (March 1816)	17	(2)
The Prisoner of Chillon (June 1816)	19	(12)
Darkness (July 1816)	31	(2)
Stanzas to Augusta (July 1816)	33	(1)
`When the Moon Is on the Wave' (from Act I, Scene I of Manfred; 1816)	34	(2)
`So We'll Go No More a Roving' (February 1817)	36	(1)
`My Boat Is on the Shore' (July 1817)	37	(1)
`Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play' (August 1817)	37	(3)
Beppo (autumn 1817)	40	(27)
`The Isles of Greece' (from Canto the Third of Don Juan (ca. 1819)	67	(4)
`When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home' (1820)	71	(1)
``Who Killed John Keats?'' (July 1821)	71	(1)
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa (November 1821)	72	(1)
The Vision of Judgment (1821)	72	(30)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year (1824)	102	(3)
Alphabetical List of Titles	105	(1)
Alphabetical List of First Lines	106