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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.
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Vol. II.
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Vol. III.
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Vol. IV.
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JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798–1824.
  
EPIGRAM ON AN OLD LADY WHO HAD SOME CURIOUS NOTIONS RESPECTING THE SOUL.
  
EPITAPH ON JOHN ADAMS, OF SOUTHWELL,
  
A VERSION OF OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.
  
LINES TO MR. HODGSON.
  
[TO DIVES. A FRAGMENT.]
  
FAREWELL PETITION TO J. C. H., ESQRE.
  
TRANSLATION OF THE NURSE'S DOLE IN THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.
  
MY EPITAPH.
  
SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH.
  
EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKET, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER.
  
ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA.
  
[R. C. DALLAS.]
  
AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL.
  
TO THE HONBLE. MRS. GEORGE LAMB.
  
[LA REVANCHE.]
  
TO THOMAS MOORE.
  
ON LORD THURLOW'S POEMS.
  
TO LORD THURLOW.
  
THE DEVIL'S DRIVE.
  
WINDSOR POETICS.
  
[Another Version.] ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS.
  
ICH DIEN.
  
CONDOLATORY ADDRESS
  
FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE.
  
ANSWER TO ---'S PROFESSIONS OF AFFECTION.
  
ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA.
  
ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION, IN THE APRIL OF 1816.
  
[TO GEORGE ANSON BYRON (?)]
  
SONG FOR THE LUDDITES.
  
TO THOMAS MOORE.
  
TO MR. MURRAY.
  
VERSICLES.
  
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT.
  
TO THOMAS MOORE.
  
EPISTLE FROM MR. MURRAY TO DR. POLIDORI.
  
EPISTLE TO MR. MURRAY.
  
ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER.
  
[E NIHILO NIHIL;
  
TO MR. MURRAY.
  
BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF “SALLEY IN OUR ALLEY.”
  
ANOTHER SIMPLE BALLAT.
  
EPIGRAM. FROM THE FRENCH OF RULHIERES.
  
EPILOGUE.
  
ON MY WEDDING-DAY.
  
EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
EPITAPH.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
MY BOY HOBBIE O.
  
LINES ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.
  
A VOLUME OF NONSENSE.
  
STANZAS.
  
TO PENELOPE.
  
THE CHARITY BALL.
  
EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' ADDRESS TO BE PRESENTED IN ARMOUR BY THE COMPANY TO QUEEN CAROLINE.
  
ON MY THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY.
  
MARTIAL, Lib. I. Epig. I.
  
BOWLES AND CAMPBELL.
  
ELEGY.
  
JOHN KEATS.
  
FROM THE FRENCH.
  
TO MR. MURRAY.
  
[NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX.]
  
THE NEW VICAR OF BRAY.
  
LUCIETTA. A FRAGMENT.
  
EPIGRAMS.
  
THE CONQUEST.
  
IMPROMPTU.
  
JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA.
  
SONG TO THE SULIOTES.
  
[LOVE AND DEATH.]
  
LAST WORDS ON GREECE.
  
ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.

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[TO GEORGE ANSON BYRON (?)]

1

And, dost thou ask the reason of my sadness?
Well, I will tell it thee, unfeeling boy!
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'T was ill report that urged my brain to madness,
'T was thy tongue's venom poisoned all my joy.

2

The sadness which thou seest is not sorrow;
My wounds are far too deep for simple grief;
The heart thus withered, seeks in vain to borrow
From calm reflection, comfort or relief.

3

The arrow's flown, and dearly shalt thou rue it;
No mortal hand can rid me of my pain:
My heart is pierced, but thou canst not subdue it—
Revenge is left, and is not left in vain.
? 1816.
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