The Shorter Byron

There were two major influences on Byron's poetry. One was the romantic, which he shared with his friends, Coleridge and Shelley; the other was the eighteenth-century Augustan mode, of which Alexander Pope was the greatest master. Byron's natural facility with rhyme and metre enabled him to be very prolific, and some critics considered that this precocity resulted in a certain shallowness and facile charm. However, much of Byron's verse displays both philosophic and emotional depth, and in his more satirical work he evinces a sharpness of perception characteristic of his poetic hero, Pope. This collection contains a wide range of pieces, demonstrating Byron's versatility in form and expression. Also include is a selection of Byron's letters to colleagues, friends, and lovers, which show the poet in his more revealing and unguarded moments. FOREWORD
LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS: NOTHING SO DIFFICULT AS A BEGINNING
SO, WE'LL GO NO MORE A ROVING
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, LIKE THE NIGHT
THERE BE NONE OF BEAUTY'S DAUGHTERS
COULD LOVE FOR EVER
OH, TALK NOT TO ME OF A NAME GREAT IN STORY
WHEN WE TWO PARTED
THERE WAS A TIME, I NEED NOT NAME
BEAUTIFUL SHADOW OF THETIS'S BOY!
STANZAS FOR MUSIC
SHADOWS OF BEAUTY
WHEN THE MOON IS ON THE WAVE
THE MONARCH
THE RIDER OF THE WIND
THE STAR WHICH RULES THY DESTINY
AZAZIEL
TO FLORENCE : THE NIGHT STORM
THROUGH CLOUDLESS SKIES
DEAR OBJECT OF DEFEATED CARE!
FARE THEE WELL!
RIVER, THAT ROLLEST BY THE ANCIENT WALLS
ROMAIC SONG
TAMBOURGI, TAMBOURGI!
MAID OF ATHENS
TO TOM MOORE : "MY BOAT IS ON THE SHORE"
MANY ARE POETS WITHOUT THE NAME
ETERNAL SPIRIT OF THE CHAINLESS MIND!
NEWSTEAD ABBEY ("IT STOOD EMBOSOM'D IN A HAPPY VALLEY ")
THE BLACK FRIAR
CELTIC MEMORIES
WHEN I ROVED A YOUNG HIGHLANDER
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL!
TO FLORENCE
INSCRIPTION ON A DOG'S MONUMENT
CHURCHILL'S GRAVE
COULD I REMOUNT THE RIVER OF MY YEARS
LAKE LEMAN
CLEAR, PLACID LEMAN
DRACHENFELS
IN THE YEAR SINCE JESUS DIED FOR MEN
TIME
TO IANTHE
CHILDE HAROLD'S FAREWELL
A VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD OF ALHAMA
OH, SNATCH'D AWAY IN BEAUTY'S BLOOM
VISION OF BELSHAZZAR
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB
BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON
THE EXILES
SONG OF SAUL
WHEN COLDNESS WRAPS
FOR MUSIC
POEMS TO AUGUSTA: I.-WHEN ALL AROUND GREW DREAR AND DARK: II-THOUGH THE DAY OF MY DESTINY'S OVER: III.-MY SISTER ! MY SWEET SISTER
POEMS TO THYRZA
LARA
I HAVE NOT LOVED THE WORLD
THE ISLES OF GREECE
KNOW YE THE LAND
ON PARTING
PROMETHEUS
SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS
ROME
THE DYING GLADIATOR
FREEDOM
ODE TO NAPOLEON
TO TIME
VENICE
SATIRICAL AND OCCASIONAL VERSE: WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS
ON LORD THURLOW'S POEMS
VERSICLES
EPIGRAMS
EASY WRITING, EASY READING
AUTHORS AND WOULD-BE WITS
BOB SOUTHEY
WHO KILL'D JOHN KEATS ?
POETICAL COMMANDMENTS
ENGLAND! WITH ALL THY FAULTS I LOVE THEE STILL
SHALL NOBLE ALBION PASS WITHOUT A PHRASE?
'TWAS THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
"WHERE IS THE WORLD?"
FREEDOM
THE END OF FAME
LINES IN A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL
THE BANQUET AND PETER PITH
EPISTLE TO MR. MURRAY
ODE TO MR. MURRAY
THE LONDON ROAD
ON BOARD THE LISBON PACKET
FAREWELL TO MALTA
TO TOM LITLE
FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO TOM MOORE
BYRON'S FAREWELL
LETTERS: TO DEAR QUEEN BESS (MISS PIGOT) 11/06/1807
TO MISS PIGOT (from CAMBRIDGE) 05/07/1807
TO MISS PIGOT (from LONDON) 11/08/1807
TO HIS MOTHER 6/03/1809
TO FRANCIS HODGSON (AT FALMOUTH) 25/06/1809
TO FRANCIS HODGSON (AT LISBON) 16/07/1809
TO HIS MOTHER (In Albania) 12/11/1809
TO FRANCIS HODGSON (In the Morea) 3/10/1810
TO ROBERT C. DALLAS (At Sea) 28/06/1811
TO SCROPE DAVIES (At Newstead Abbey) 7/08/1811
TO ROBERT C. DALLAS (At Newstead Abbey) 12/08/1811
TO TOM MOORE (in London) 22/06/1813
TO TOM MOORE (in London) 2/10/1813
TO JOHN MURRAY At Newstead Abbey) 22/01/1814
TO TOM MOORE (In London) 9/04/1814
TO TOM MOORE (At Newstead Abbey) 20/09/1814
TO TOM MOORE (Canine Recollections) 19/01/1815
TO TOM MOORE (At Seaham: A Sad Song) 2/03/1815
TO TOM MOORE (In London: Sheridan) 31/10/1815
TO JOHN MURRAY (At Ouchy, near Lausanne) 27/06/1816
TO JOH