Poetry of Byron

Chosen and Arranged by Matthew Arnold

Lord Byron

Bibliographic Record

Contents

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., 1881
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

I. Personal, Lyric, and Elegiac

Loch Na Garr

“Well! thou art happy”

Epistle to a Friend

To Thomas Moore

Childe Harold’s Departure

Stanzas composed during a Thunderstorm

“Maid of Athens”

To Inez

“One Struggle more”

Euthanasia

“And Thou art Dead”

“When We Two Parted”

Stanzas for Music

Stanzas to Augusta

Solitude

Nature the Consoler, I

Nature the Consoler, II

The Poet and the World

Bereavement

Last leaving England

England

Ruins to Ruins

The Dream

The Poet’s Curse

Nature to the Last

“She Walks in Beauty”

“Oh! Snatch’d Away”

Song of Saul

Vision of Belshazzar

Destruction of Sennacherib

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Ode on Waterloo

Napoleon’s Farewell

Lament of Tasso

Dante in Exile

The Isles of Greece

Lines to a Lady Weeping

Death of the Princess Charlotte

Immortality

“On this Day I complete my Thirty-sixth Year”

Life

II. Descriptive and Narrative

Greece, I

Greece, II

Greece, III

Greece, IV

Hellespont

Troy

The Drachenfels

Waterloo

Lake of Geneva—Calm

Lake of Geneva—Storm

Clarens

Italy

Venice, I

Venice, II

Venice, III

An August Evening in Italy

The Ave Maria

Arqua

Clitumnus

Terni

Rome

The Coliseum

Tomb of Cecilia Metella

Grotto of Egeria

Sonnet on Chillon

Bonnivard and his Brothers

Bonnivard alone

The East

Journey and Death of Hassan

Hassan’s Mother

The Giaour’s Love

Death of Selim

Corsair Life

Parting of Conrad and Medora

Conrad’s Return

Alp and Francesca

The Assault

Parisina

The Last of Ezzelin

Mazeppa’s Ride

The Streamlet from the Cliff

The Shipwreck

Haidée

Haidée again

Aurora Raby

III. Dramatic

Manfred and the Seven Spirits

Manfred on the Cliffs

The Witch of the Alps

Astarte

Manfred’s Farewell to the Sun

Manfred’s End

Dying Speech of the Doge of Venice

Death of Salemenes

Death of Jacopo Foscari

Cain and Lucifer in the Abyss of Space

Cain and Adah

IV. Satiric

Fame

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos

On my thirty-third Birthday

To Mr. Murray, I

Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori

To Mr. Murray, II

Holland House

Epilogue to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

The Landed Interest

Italy

England

Wanted—a Hero

London

Things Sweet

Lambro’s Return

A Stormed City

Exhortation to Mr. Wilberforce

Exhortation to Mrs. Fry

Satan claims, at Heaven’s Gate, George the Third

The Sex

Our Children

Soul

Mobility

Great Names

Poetical Commandments

Byron and his Contemporaries

Poetical Production

The Lighter Side