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Subject: BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824)
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First Line: When we crown a bowl to him
Last Line: We, byron, drink to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What made my heart, at newstead, fullest swell?
Last Line: Was woe than byron's woe more tragic far.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death - Children; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Death - Babies


ANOTHER LETTER TO LORD BYRON, by ALAN BOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: So you were half a scot by birth, and bred
Last Line: I promise you I'll act on my conclusion
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets


BYRON, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: His faults were great, his virtues less
Last Line: That virtue in its recess dies.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


BYRON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In men whom men condemn as ill
Last Line: And england does not fear the shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Variant Title(s): Judge Not
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


BYRON, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Admire the goodness of almighty god
Last Line: To fill the embrace of all eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Variant Title(s): The Genius Of Byron
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


BYRON, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Byron, what clash in thee of sea and wind
Last Line: While fades the chaos-tingeing fiery juice divine. . . .
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


BYRON, by ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outlaw of the genteel-sounding name
Last Line: You took your place among the deathless gods!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


BYRON IN GREECE, by NORMAN ROSTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You would know, dear one
Last Line: Lift trees: we'll be warm, %with blessed sleep as victory
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets


BYRON THE VOLUPTUARY; EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too avid of earth's bliss, he was of those
Last Line: Back in their faces hungering for her face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


BYRON VS. DIMAGGIO, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I was told
Last Line: Have to admit that dimag played %sweet music %out there in the magic grass %of center field
Subject(s): Baseball; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Dimaggio, Joseph ("joe"); Poetry And Poets; Sports


BYRON'S OAK AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little twig that byron planted here
Last Line: While byron's fame through endless time will reign!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


DONNA JULIA'S FIRST LETTER AFTER JUAN'S DEPARTURE FOR CADIZ, by KATHARINE COLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Isabella, more and more I remember childhood
Last Line: To whatever wind he pleases. Bella, no tears
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


EPISTLE TO LORD BYRON: VIRTUE PROTESTS, by JOSEPH COTTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From thy compeers in genius wisely learn
Last Line: To know that I shall ever reach the height!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Genius; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever
Last Line: More than this I scarce can die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


HARRIET BEECHER READ LORD BYRON, by SAM CORNISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Calvin %my new husband
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)


IRREGULAR ODE, ON THE DEATH OF LORD BYRON, by CALEB C. COLTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We mourn thy wreck; that mighty mind
Last Line: And scorned both hope and fear -- ambition and desire!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


LAST DAYS OF BYRON, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just at the point / of facing death in
Last Line: Beaten forever by the mighty sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece


LORD BYRON, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced
Last Line: On hearts and passions prostrate at his feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Variant Title(s): Byron
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


MADE IN ATHENS (APOLOGIES TO LORD BYRON), by DONOVAN MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Maid of athens, ere we part
Last Line: Et cetera!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


MANFRED, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Projected from the bilious childe
Last Line: An after-dinner's indigest.
Subject(s): Alps; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MEMORIAL VERSES, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goethe in weimar sleeps, and greece
Last Line: Hears thy voice right, now he is gone.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


ODES II, 6. TO BYRON, ON THEIR DEPARTURE FOR GREECE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though we, my friend! Prepare to roam
Last Line: And weep, for thou canst weep, one tear, %to mourn the poet and the friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets


OFF MESOLONGI, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lights of mesolongi gleam
Last Line: To gaze, and pass.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece; Ocean


ON THE DEATH OF LORD BYRON, COMPOSED AT WESTHILL, IN THE GREAT STORM, by HUMPHRY DAVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gone is the bard, who, like a powerful spirit
Last Line: In the bright flame, o'er earthly ashes glowing.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass of fifty aprils hath waved green
Last Line: Hers is the shame if such forgotten be!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis strange that I, who haply might have met
Last Line: So still, so calm, so purely beautiful!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel


ON THE STATUE OF LORD BYRON (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And near thee hands a page, in boyhodd penn'd
Last Line: Shares our fond gaze between itself and thee.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Statues; Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Thorwaldsen, Bertel


POETS AND PEACOCOKS, by MARGARET ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love hurts and sometimes there's cure for it
Last Line: Feathers for peacocks, poetry for men?
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


REJECTED ADDRESSES: CUI BONO, BY LORD B., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sated with home, of wife, of children tired
Last Line: And moody madness laughs and hugs the chain he clanks.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Family Life; Home; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Relatives


SHELLEY'S CENTENARY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a narrow span of time / three princes of the realm of rhyme
Last Line: Smote him and slew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


SONNET TO BYRON, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Byron, I know your wild, tempestuous ways
Last Line: A bird which, since it cannot soar, must sing
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets


SONNET TO BYRON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I esteemed you less, envy would kill
Last Line: May lift itself in homage of the god.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


SONNET: 7. THE STANZA OF CHILDE HAROLD, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who framed the stanza of childe harold? He
Last Line: About it, like a sunset in the skies?
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


THE CHILDE'S DESTINY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No mistress of the hidden skill
Last Line: "as woman is from thine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


THE SEA REPLIES TO BYRON, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stroll on, thou dark not deep 'blue' dandy, stroll
Last Line: Absconded; gone abroad; address unknown.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


THE SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS; OR,THE QUEST OF SULTAUN SOLIMAUN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for a glance of that gay muse's eye
Last Line: Went back to serendib as sad as he came.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


TO (BYRON), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty mind, in whose deep stream this age
Last Line: Why dost thou curb not thine own sacred rage?
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


TO BYRON, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Byron! How sweetly sad thy melody!
Last Line: The enchanting tale, the tale of pleasing woe.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Byron
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


TO LORD BYRON ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR ITALY AND GREECE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since you resolve, dear byron, once again
Last Line: Remember what we all expect, who read you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting


TO THE SPIRIT OF BYRON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou more than poet, freedom's laureate
Last Line: To belgium thou hadst poured libation of thy life!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


TRIOLET, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to think all poets were byronic
Last Line: Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets


TWO FANTASIES: TO BYRON, by NILS CLAUSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: So, the toy murray sent you in italy
Last Line: Oh, multiple teresa, %don juan calls
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Fantasy; Poetry And Poets


VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a green isle needs must be
Last Line: And the earth grow young again.
Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VILLANELLE: AFTER BYRON, by JAMES MULLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear diary, of waht does life consist?
Last Line: It's hardly worth the effort to exist
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry And Poets