ROBERT P. GORMAN
THEU A DO MERCADO 5:

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.

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CONTENTS.

HOURS OF IDLENESS; A SERIES OF POEMS, ORIGINAL AND

Article on the "Hours of Idleness" from the Edinburgh

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23

Review

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Introduction

11

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

very dear to him

13

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

Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam

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20

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

HOURS OF IDLENESS-continued.

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

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

νέμων,” κ. τ. λ..

To Emma

To M. S. G.

To Caroline

To the Same

To the Same

Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns

The First Kiss of Love

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

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

with his own

The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus

Translation from the Medea of Euripides. "'Egarts UTER μEY

HOURS OF IDLENESS-continued.

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An Occasional Prologue to "The Wheel of Fortune"

On the Death of Mr. Fox

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75

The Tear

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

of his Mistress

To the sighing Strephon

To Eliza

Lachin y Gair

To Romance

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

complaining that one of his Descriptions was rather too

warmly drawn

Elegy on Newstead Abbey

Childish Recollections

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

To a Lady who presented the Author with the Velvet Band

which bound her Tresses

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

Author to mix more with Society

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

Ossian

To the Earl of Clare.

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Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow

Notes