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The works of Lord Byron

A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero

Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

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Vol. I. HOURS OF IDLENESS AND OTHER EARLY POEMS.

II.

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III.

POEMS 1809–1813.

THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

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1.

CANTO THE FIRST.

2.

CANTO THE SECOND.

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3.

CANTO THE THIRD.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

HEBREW MELODIES.

POEMS 1814–1816.

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.

POEMS OF THE SEPARATION.

IV.

V.

7.

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It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whispered word;

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And gentle winds, and waters near,
Make music to the lonely ear.

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Each flower the dews have lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met,
And on the wave is deeper blue,
And on the leaf a browner hue,
And in the heaven that clear obscure,
So softly dark, and darkly pure,
Which follows the decline of day,
As twilight melts beneath the moon away.

The lines contained in this section were printed as set to music some time since, but belonged to the poem where they now appear; the greater part of which was composed prior to Lara, and other compositions since published.