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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: george byron Matches Found: 414 A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I remount the river of my years Last Line: The essence of great bosoms now no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Past A PUBLISHER TO HIS CLIENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear doctor, I have read your play Last Line: John murray. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epistle From Mr. Murray To Dr. Polidori Subject(s): Murray, John (1745-1793); Polidori, John William; Publishing; Publishers A SKETCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred Last Line: And festering in the infamy of years. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Household Employees A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE ME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit passed before me: I beheld Last Line: Heedless and blind to wisdom's wasted light!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology A VERSION OF THE OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Who rollest in yon azure field Last Line: The weary traveller shrinks and sighs for home. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sun ADDRESS INTENDED TO BE RECITED AT THE CALEDONIA MEETING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not glowed above the page where fame Last Line: And wean from penury the soldier's heir. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Scotland ADDRESS SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE DRURY-LANE THEATRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one dread night our city saw, and sighed Last Line: Still may we please -- long, long may you preside! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ALBANIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of albania! Where iskander rose Last Line: Through many a cypress-grove within each city's ken. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Albania ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine Last Line: The soul that must endure it. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Vanity; Theology ALWAYS LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the refinement of this polished age Last Line: And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh well done lord e - n! And better done r - r! Last Line: Who, when asked for a remedy, sent them a rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Work; Workers AND DOST THOU ASK THE REASON OF MY SADNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sorrow AND WILT THOU WEEP WHEN I AM LOW?, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Meditation; Crying ANOTHER SIMPLE BALLAT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Wilmont sate scribbling a play Last Line: Gally I. O. I. O. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ANSWER TO -'S PROFESSSIONS OF AFFECTION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hearts like thine ne'er may I hold a place Last Line: The rotten borough of the human heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love ANSWER TO A BEAUTIFUL POEM ENTITLED 'THE COMMON LOT', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Montgomery! True, the common lot Last Line: Shall burst the bondage of the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Montgomery, James (1771-1854); Poetry & Poets ANSWER TO LINES WRITTEN IN ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, simple girl, those flattering arts Last Line: It is not flattery, -- 't is truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ANSWER TO SOME ELEGANT VERSES SENT BY A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Candor compels me, becher! To commend Last Line: Their sneers or censures I alike despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Critics & Criticism APPARITION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a dusk and awful figure rise Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ARION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is up; by heaven, a lovely eve! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ARISTOMENES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods of old are silent on their shore Last Line: Whose names are on the hills and o'er the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Greece; Past AURORA RABY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then there was - but why should I go on Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron AVE MARIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'SALLY IN OUR ALLEY', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the twice ten thousand bards Last Line: Is rowing of my gally. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout Last Line: But stories somehow lengthen when begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846); Venice, Italy BLOOD, PULSE, AND BREAST CONFIRM THE DARDAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron BRAVE CHAMPIONS! GO ON WITH THE FARCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Quarrels BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat down and wept by the waters Last Line: With the voice of the spoiler by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Psalm 137 Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism CADMUS, THE INVENTOR OF LETTERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have the letters cadmus gave Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron CAIN: ACT II SCENE 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haughty spirit! Last Line: Nature, and war trimphant with your own Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron CAIN; A MYSTERY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, the eternal! Infinite! Last Line: But with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Revolutions CARNIVAL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the places where the carnival Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy CECILIA METELLA, FR. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 4, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stern round tower of other days Last Line: What are our petty griefs! - let me not number mine Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE (COMPLETE), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been straying Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courage; Death; Homosexuality; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Poetry And Poets; Sea; Travel CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven! - but thou, alas Last Line: And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloy'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Homesickness; Travel CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 3, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child Last Line: As, with a sigh, I deem thou mightst have been to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Outward Bound;byron And Childe Harold Subject(s): War CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 4, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood in venice on the bridge of sighs Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Travel; Italy CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When slow disease, with all her hosts of pain Last Line: And love, without his pinion, smiled on youth. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Childhood CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside the grave of him who blazed Last Line: The glory and the nothing of a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones CONDOLATORY ADDRESS TO SARAH, COUNTESS OF JERSEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the vain triumph of the imperial lord Last Line: Its hate of freedom's loveliness, and thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Paintings & Painters CONRAD AND THE DEAD BODY OF MEDORA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turned not - spoke not - sunk not Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron CONSCIENCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet still there whispers the small voice within Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Religion CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a vanished year and age Last Line: Which seems the very clouds to kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Corinth, Greece COUNTRY HOUSE PARTY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentleman got up betimes to shoot Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron CROWD ARE GONE, THE REVELLERS AT REST, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sleep DAMAETAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In law an infant, and in years a boy Last Line: And what was once his bliss appears his bane. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Youth DANIEL BOONE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all men, saving sylla the man-slayer Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron DARKNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream, which was not all a dream Last Line: Of aid from them -- she was the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares DEATH OF CALMAR AND ORLA; AN IMITATION OF OSSIAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear are the days of youth! Age dwells Last Line: And smile through the tears of the storm Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Macpherson, James (1736-1796) DEATH OF HAIDEE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High and inscrutable the old man stood Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron DEFORMED TRANSFORMED; A DRAMA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out, hunchback! %I was born so, mother! Last Line: To be her heart as she is mine Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hunchbacks DON JUAN (CANTO TEN), SELS: 56, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've no great cause to love that spot of earth Last Line: When a man's country's going to the devil Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron DON JUAN (CANTO TEN), SELS: 57, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Could she but fully, truly, know Last Line: And now would chain them, to the very mind Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron DON JUAN: CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a hero: an uncommon want Last Line: For god's sake, reader! Take them not for mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 10, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When newton saw an apple fall, he found Last Line: Like roland's horn in roncesvalles' battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 11, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When bishop berkely said 'there was no matter' Last Line: But would not change my free thoughts for a throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 12, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the barbarous middle ages, that Last Line: And tell me what you think of your great thinkers. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 13, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I now mean to be serious; -- it is time Last Line: And lower the price of rouge -- at least some winters. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Lady Adeline Amundeville Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 14, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If from great nature's or our own abyss Last Line: Caesar himself would be ashamed of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Sceptic And His Poem Subject(s): Don Juan; Slavery; Wilberforce, William (1759-1833); Serfs DON JUAN: CANTO 15, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! - what should follow slips from my reflection Last Line: Of empires heave but like some passing waves. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 16, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The antique persians taught three useful things Last Line: The phantom of her frolic grace -- fitz-fulke! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 17, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of orphans Last Line: A vigil, or dreamt rather more than slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh ye! Who teach the ingenuous youth of nations Last Line: For them and theirs with all who deign to read. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 3, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, muse! Et cetera. - we left juan sleeping Last Line: From aristotle passim. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 4, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so difficult as a beginning Last Line: Till what is call'd in ossian the fifth duan. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 5, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When amatory poets sing their loves Last Line: You'll pardon to my muse a few short naps. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 6, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tide in the affairs of men' Last Line: The muse will take a little touch at warfare. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 7, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! O glory! What are ye who fly Last Line: The death-cry drowning in the battle's roar. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Siege Of Ismail Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 8, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh blood and thunder! And oh blood and wounds Last Line: And made a vow to shield her, which he kept. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan DON JUAN: CANTO 9, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wellington! Or 'villainton' - for fame Last Line: To take a quiet ride in some green lane. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Wellington Subject(s): Don Juan; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Wellington, Duke Of DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION], by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bob southey! You're a poet -- poet-laureate Last Line: Is it not so, my tory, ultra-julian? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan; Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) DYING BOYS ON THE RAFT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were tow fathers in this ghastly Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron E NIHILO NIHIL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of rhymes I printed seven volumes Last Line: And generous rizzo! Thou my pension. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron EGOISM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If fate should seal my death to-morow Last Line: For, faith, I can't withstand temptation. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ELEGIAC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tear for all that die Last Line: Who ne'er gave cause to mourn before. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Parker, Sir Peter (1721-1811) ELEGY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Snatch'd away in beauty's bloom Last Line: Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ELEGY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Snatch'd away in beauty's bloom Last Line: Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newstead! Fast-falling, once-resplendent dome Last Line: And bless thy future as thy former day. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys ELEGY ON THYRZA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou art dead, as young and fair Last Line: Than aught, except its living years. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION, IN THE APRIL OF 1816, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago you swore, fond she! Last Line: And here's exactly what 't is worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Divorce ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must I hear? - shall hoarse fitzgerald bawl Last Line: Yet rarely blames unjustly, now declare. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Andrews, Miles Peter; Bland, Robert (1779-1825); Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Busby, Thomas (1755-1838); Clarke, Hewson; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Critics & Criticism; Fitzgerald, William Thomas (1759-1829); Giffo EPIGRAM ON AN OLD LADY WHO HAD SOME CURIOUS NOTIONS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nottingham county there lives at swan green Last Line: She firmly believes she will go to the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Soul EPIGRAM ON MY WEDDING DAY: TO PENELOPE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day, of all our days, has done Last Line: And five since we were two. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): To Penelope Subject(s): Anniversaries; Divorce EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The braziers, it seems, are preparing to pass Last Line: I owe, in great part, to my passion for pastry. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) EPIGRAMS ON CASTLEREAGH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, castlereagh! Thou art a patriot now Last Line: The man who cut his country's long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount EPILOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in a stupid ass Last Line: And with your place in the excise! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO SOME LINES TO BE CHEERFUL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Banish care' - such ever be Last Line: Nor with the effect forget the cause. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Unrequited EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister! My sweet sister! If a name Last Line: The tie which bound the first endures the last! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sisters EPISTLE TO MR. MURRAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear mr. Murray Last Line: Of what size you may quickly determine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Mnemonics EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKETT, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Behold, interred together Last Line: And if he did, 't were shame to 'black-it.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Critics & Criticism EPITAPH FOR [WILLIAM] PITT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With death doomed to grapple Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron EPITAPH ON A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, friend, for ever loved, for ever dear! Last Line: While solitary friendship sighs alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship EPITAPH ON CASTLEREAGH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Posterity will ne'er survey Last Line: Stop, traveler, and piss Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount EPITAPH TO A DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near this spot Last Line: I never knew but one -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EUTHANASIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When time, or soon or late, shall bring Last Line: T is something better not to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Euthanasia EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Approach, thou craven, crouching slave! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron FALLS OF TERNI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roar of waters! - from the headlong height Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy FAREWELL PETITION TO J.C.H., ESQ., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou yclep'd by vulgar sons of men Last Line: And scribbling songs grow dutiful and live! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beckford, William (1760-1844); Hobhouse, John Cam (1786-1869); Writing & Writers; Broughton De Gyfford, 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 FAREWELL TO MALTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, ye joys of la valette Last Line: And bless the gods I've got a fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Malta; Travel; Journeys; Trips FAREWELL TO THE MUSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou power! Who hast ruled me through infancy Last Line: The present -- which seals our eternal adieu. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell FILL THE GOBLET AGAIN! FOR I NEVER BEFORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the goblet again! For I never before Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking FLOATING CORPSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As shaken on his restless pillow Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, to their airy hall, my father's voice Last Line: By that remember'd, or with that forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron FRAGMENT FROM THE MONK OF ATHOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the confines of the aegean main Last Line: Till heaven in mercy bids your pain and sorrows cease. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Greece FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What say I? - not a syllable further in prose Last Line: With majesty's presence as those she invited. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FRAGMENT WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CHAWORTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills of annesley, black and barren Last Line: Makes ye seem a heaven to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FRAGMENT, ON THE BACK OF THE POET'S MS. OF CANTO I OF 'DON JUAN', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would to heaven that I were so much clay Last Line: And so -- for god's sake -- hock and soda-water! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan FROM THE FRENCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must thou go, my glorious chief Last Line: His fall, his exile, and his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) GIAOUR, SELS., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lausanne! And ferney! Ye have been the abodes Last Line: T will be forgiven, or suffer what is just. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Historians GOD MADDENS HIM WHOM 'TIS HIS WILL TO LOSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Conduct Of Life GRANTA - A MEDLEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Could le sage's demon's gift Last Line: The reader's tired, and so am I. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron GREAT MEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thus the spirit of a single mind Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courage GREAT NAMES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And glory long has made the sages smile Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron GULBEYAZ, FR. DON JUAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulbeyaz, for the first time in her days Last Line: His peace was making, but before he ventured %further, old baba rather briskly enter'd Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Don Juan HEAVEN AND EARTH; A MYSTERY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father sleeps: it is the hour when they Last Line: Why, when all perish, why must I remain? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron HEBREW MELODIES, SELS., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron HEROD'S LAMENT FOR MARIAMNE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mariamne! Now for thee Last Line: Which unconsumed are still consuming! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jews; Judaism HEROES OF GREECE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fell devoted, but undying Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron HINTS FROM HORACE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would not laugh, if lawrence, hired to grace Last Line: And gorges like a lawyer -- or a leech. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.) HOURS OF IDLENESS, SELS., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron HOWEVER, I STILL THINK, WILL ALL DUE DEFERENCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron HURTS OF TIME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon time, who will leave no Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron I SAW THEE WEEP - THE BIG BRIGHT TEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee weep – the big bright tear Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Crying I WOULD I WERE A CARELESS CHILD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Transience ICH DIEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this emblem what variance your motto evinces Last Line: For the man is his country's -- the arms are the prince's! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron IDLENESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The keenest pangs the wretched find Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron IF SOMETIMES IN THE HAUNTS OF MEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory IF THAT HIGH WORLD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that high world, which lies beyond Last Line: And soul in soul grow deathless theirs! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise IMITATION OF TIBULLUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel cerinthus! Does the fell disease Last Line: By death alone I can avoid your hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate IMPROMPTU, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath blessington's eyes Last Line: What mortal would not play the devil? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dessire IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, from the heart where sorrow sits Last Line: And droop within their silent cell. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN PRAISE OF THE TURK, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a turk, the colour of mahogany Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron IN THE GREAT WORLD -- WHICH, BEING INTERPRETED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Inquired his income, and if he had brothers Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron IN THE VALLEY OF WATERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the valley of waters we wept o'er the day Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some proud son of man returns to earth Last Line: I never knew but one, -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epitaph To A Dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nottinghamshire, England INVOCATION TO THE SPIRIT OF ACHILLES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful shadow / of thetis's boy! Last Line: His stand in creation! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical ISLAND (THE SEA CAVE), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young neuha plunged into the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ISLES OF GREECE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dash down yon cup of samian wine! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since our country, our god- oh, my sire! Last Line: And forget not I smiled as I died! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Jephthah's Daughter Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JOHN KEATS (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who kill'd john keats? Last Line: Or southey or barrow!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets JOHN KEATS (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John keats, who was killed off by one critique Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead have been awaken'd - shall I sleep? Last Line: Its echo in my heart -- Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron JUAN AND HAIDEE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long in his damp trance young juan lay Last Line: Mourns o'er the beauty of the cyclades Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron JUAN AND JULIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young juan now was sixteen years of age Last Line: And liking not the inside, locked the out! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron JULIA ALPINULA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a lone wall a lonelier column rears Last Line: And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Avenches, Switzerland JULIAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night came on the waters - all was rest Last Line: With honest wonder what might next betide. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sea L'AMITIE EST L'AMOUR SANS AILES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should my anxious breast repine Last Line: Friendship is love without his wings!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time; Conduct Of Life LA REVANCHE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no more for me to hope Last Line: A vain remembrancer of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Love LABUNTUR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say I: by which quotation there is Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron LACHIN Y GAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses Last Line: The steep frowning glories of dark loch na garr! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Scotland LAKE LEMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lake leman woos me with its crystal face Last Line: The soul and source of music, which makes known %eternal harmony Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron LAMBRO'S RETURN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw his white walls shining in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron LARA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The serfs are glad through lara's wide domain Last Line: Her tale untold, her truth too dearly proved. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron LAST WORDS ON GREECE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are to me those honors or renown Last Line: So strong thy magic or so weak am I. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Greece LETTER TO MR. MOORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to her who long Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Marriage LIFE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well, the world must turn upon its axis Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courage LIGHT BROKE IN UPON MY SOUL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron LINES ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doubtless, sweet girl! The hissing lead Last Line: Let it be aught but banishment. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bullets LINES ADDRESSED TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you go to the house by the true gate Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ADDRESSED TO THE REV. J.T. BECHER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear becher, you tell me to mix with mankind Last Line: Why waste upon folly the days of my youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start not - nor deem my spirit fled Last Line: This chance is theirs, to be of use. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cups; Skulls LINES ON HEARING THAT LADY BYRON WAS ILL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou wert sad - yet I was not with thee Last Line: I would not do by thee as thou hast done! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Illness LINES TO A LADY WEEPING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, daughter of a royal line Last Line: Repaid thee by thy people's smiles! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Tears LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear object of defeated care! Last Line: My memory immortal grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spot of my youth! Whose hoary branches sigh Last Line: And unremember'd by the world beside Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Harrow, England; Youth LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT MALTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As o'er the cold sepulchral stone Last Line: And think my heart is buried here. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Malta LINES WRITTEN IN ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, your flattering arts Last Line: And they shall weep at your deceiving.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Flattery; Deceit LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAD OF 'THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent or present, still to thee Last Line: Her name immortally with thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modest bard, like many a bard unknown Last Line: His name would bring more credit than his verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Written In The Travellers Book Of The Macri Family At Athens Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Poetry & Poets LONDON LITERATURE AND SOCIETY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Juan know several languages - as well Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron LOVE AND DEATH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched thee when the foe was at our side Last Line: To strongly, wrongly, vainly love thee still. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Love And Death: Last Lines Subject(s): Love; Death LOVE AND GOLD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot talk of love to thee Last Line: I dare not talk of love to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LOVE'S LAST ADIEU, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses of love glad the garden of life Last Line: His cypress, the garland of love's last adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love LUCIETTA. A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucietta, my deary Last Line: Coetera desunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of MAN MUST SERVE HIS TIME, FR. ENGLISH BARDS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp must be replenished, but even then Last Line: He's gone, his soul hath taken its earthless flight; %whither? I dread to think; but he is gone Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Alps; Coliseum, Rome; Immortality; Mountains MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE; AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the messenger returned? Last Line: The gory head rolls down the giant steps! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Conspiracy; Falier, Marino (1274-1355); Venice, Italy MATRONS AND MAIDS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron MAZEPPA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after dread pultowa's day Last Line: The king had been an hour asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Mazeppa, Ivan Stepanovich (1644-1709); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Ukraine; Pultowa, Battle Of (179) MINERVA AND NEPTUNE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minerva graceful waves her steel-clad hand Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R.B. SHERIDAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the last sunshine of expiring day Last Line: And broke the die -- in moulding sheridan. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) MORAT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above me are the alps Last Line: Making kings' rights divine, by some draconic clause. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Murten, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Morat, Switzerland MY EPITAPH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, nature, and relenting jove Last Line: He beat all three -- and blew it out. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Physicians MY SOUL IS DARK, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is dark -- oh! Quickly string Last Line: And break at once -- or yield to song. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Soul NAPEOLON'S FAREWELL; FROM THE FRENCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the land where the gloom of my glory Last Line: Then turn thee and call on the chief of thy choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the thief of fire from heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, accept the box a hero wore Last Line: Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco); Napoleon I (1769-1821) NEMESIS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who never yet of human wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron NEW DUET: BOWLES AND CAMPBELL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, how now, saucy tom? Last Line: Listen to his twaddling? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Bowles And Campbell Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850); Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) NEW SONG TO THE TUNE OF 'WHARE HAE YE BEEN A' DAY', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How came you in hob's pound to cool Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hobhouse, John Cam (1786-1869) NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dome of my sires as the clear moonbeam falls Last Line: But the wreck of the line that have held it in sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys NO INFANT SOTHEBY, WHOSE DAUNTLESS HEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Writing & Writers ODE FROM THE FRENCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do not curse thee, waterloo! Last Line: Crimson tears will follow yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) ODE ON VENICE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh venice! Venice! When thy marble walls Last Line: One freeman more, america, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Race With Death Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Venice, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Liberty ODE TO A LADY WHOSE LOVER WAS KILLED BY A BALL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! In whose heroic port Last Line: As many a baffled heart can tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Death ODE TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done -- but yesterday a king! Last Line: To make man blush there was but one! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Napoleon Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) OH! WEEP FOR THOSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Weep for those that wept by babel's stream Last Line: Mankind their country -- israel but the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism ON A CARRIER WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John adams lies here, of the parish of southwell Last Line: He could not carry off, -- so he's now carri-on. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epitaph On John Adams, Of Southwell;epitaph For John Adams Of Southwell, Nottinghamshire Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Nottinghamshire, England; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS AT A GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those honors, ida! Once your own Last Line: No trace of science left you, but the name. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Schools; Students ON A CORNELIAN HEART WHICH WAS BROKEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-fated heart! And can it be Last Line: A fitter emblem of his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Complaints ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Famed for their civil and domestic quarrels Last Line: The blood and dirt of both to mould a george! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON A STATUE OF NIOBE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To stone the gods have changed her, but in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ON BEING ASKED WHAT WAS THE 'ORIGIN OF LOVE', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 'origin of love!' - ah! Why Last Line: But live -- until I cease to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Beginnings ON FINDING A FAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one who felt as once he felt Last Line: Its former warmth around another. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Fans; Houson, Anne ON JORDAN'S BANKS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On jordan's banks the arab's camels stray Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Middle East ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thy battlements, newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Last Line: When decay'd, may he mingle his dust with your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Farewell ON LORD THURLOW'S POEMS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thurlow this damned nonsense sent Last Line: So, gentle thurlow, throw me thine in. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hovell-thurlow, Edward (1781-1829); Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855); Thurlow, 2d Baron ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good plays are scarce Last Line: But now 't is moore that's little. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists ON MY THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through life's dull road, so dim and dirty, Last Line: Nothing -- except thirty-three. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aging ON MY WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a happy new year! But with reason Last Line: He'll visit you in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Anniversaries; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once fairly set out on his party of pleasure Last Line: Making balls for the ladies, and bows to his foes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Escapes; Fugitives ON PARTING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kiss, dear maid! Thy lips have left Last Line: And silent ache for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON SAMUEL ROGERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nose and chin would shame a knocker Last Line: Once he wrote a pretty poem. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855) ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's sense, his mother's grace Last Line: The health and appetite of rizzo. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Infants ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this beloved marble view Last Line: Behold the helen of the heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors ON THE DAY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome Last Line: Our worship, oh father, is only for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush'd are the winds, and still the evening gloom Last Line: Still in my heart retain their wonted place. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MR. FOX, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh factious viper! Whose envemom'd tooth Last Line: For pitt, and pitt alone, has dared to ask. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806) ON THE EYES OF MISS A - H -, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne's eye is liken'd to the sun Last Line: Her sun displays perpetual summer. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Eyes ON THE QUOTATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And 'thy true faith can altar never?' - Last Line: Than thy young heart has been to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of ON THE STAR OF 'THE LEGION OF HONOR', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the brave! - whose beam hath shed Last Line: For evermore with them or thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time this heart should be unmoved Last Line: And take thy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Byron's Farewell;on Completing My Thirty-sixth Year;hail And Farewell;byron's Latest Verses Subject(s): Adversity; Missolonghi, Greece; War; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece ORACLE OF DODONA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, where, dodona! Is thine aged grove Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron OSCAR OF ALVA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly shines through azure skies Last Line: A brother's death-groan echoes there. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Tragedy OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN IN 'CARTHON', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Thou that roll'st above thy glorious fire Last Line: Piercing like yours, like yours, alas! Unseen. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sun PARANTHETICAL ADDRESS, BY DR. PLAGIARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When energizing objects men pursue Last Line: My next subscription-list shall say how much you give! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London PARISINA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the hour when from the boughs Last Line: And never more a leaf reveals. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Ferrara, Italy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy PARTING OF CONRAD AND MEDORA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose - she sprung - she clung to Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron PERSIAN WORSHIP, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly did the early persian make Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron PIGNUS AMORIS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As by the fix'd decrees of heaven Last Line: For dear I was to him who gave it. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Transience PROMETHEUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Titan! To whose immortal eyes Last Line: And making death a victory. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Prometheus QUERIES TO CAUISTS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moralists tell us that loving is sinning Last Line: Pray who would there be to defend or dispute it? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love R.C. DALLAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Wisdom shines in all his mien Last Line: Sagacious r. C. Dallas. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wisdom RAINBOW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now overhead a rainbow, bursting Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron RAVENNA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hour of twilight! In the solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy REMEMBER HIM WHOM PASSION'S POWER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory REMEMBER THEE! REMEMBER THEE!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory REMEMBRANCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done! - I saw it in my dreams Last Line: Would I could add remembrance too! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Love REMIND ME NOT, REMIND ME NOT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Memory REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J.M.B. PIGOT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain Last Line: Should lead you to curse the coquette. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Complaints RETURN OF BEPPO, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While laura thus was seen, and seeing, smiling Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron ROME BY METELLA'S TOMB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance she died in age - surviving all Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME COMPARED TO NIOBE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niobe of nations! There now she stands Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron SANTA CROCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In santa croce's holy precincts lie Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy SARDANAPALUS; A TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hath wronged his queen, but he is her lord Last Line: Tis fired! I come Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Assyria; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide; Sybarites SAUL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose spell can raise the dead Last Line: Son and sire, the house of sanl!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Saul (11th Century B.c.) SERENITY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a sigh to those who love me Last Line: Here's a heart for every fate Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in beauty, like the night Last Line: A heart whose love is innocent! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Love SHIPWRECK, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars Last Line: Without being much more horrible than dante Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron SKULL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remove your skull from out the scatter'd heaps Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron SOLILOQUY OF A BARD IN THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas now the noon of night, and all was still Last Line: A fabius and some noble roman died. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of athens, ere we part Last Line: Can I cease to love thee? No! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of athens, ere we part Last Line: Can I cease to love thee? No! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we'll go no more a-roving Last Line: By the light of the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aging; Ennui; Maturity; Conduct Of Life SONG FOR THE LUDDITES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the liberty lads o'er the sea Last Line: Of liberty, planted by ludd! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Luddites; Liberty SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warriors and chiefs! Should the shaft or the sword Last Line: Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Judaism; Theology SONG TO THE SULIOTES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up to battle! Sons of suli Last Line: Then away despite of thunder! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Greece; War SONNET ON THE NUPTIALS OF THE MARQUIS ANTONIO CAVALLI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A noble lady of the italian shore Last Line: May your fate be like hers, and unlike mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium SONNET TO GEORGE THE FOURTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be the father of the fatherless Last Line: And by the heart, not hand, enslaving us. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Prince Regent Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830) SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rousseau, voltaire, our gibbon, and de stael Last Line: Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): "lake Leman;""rousseau-voltaire-our Gibbon-and De Stael""; Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Stael, Anna (necker) De (1766-1817); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Leman, Lake SONNET, TO GENERVA (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe Last Line: I worship more, but cannot love thee less. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Heavenly And Earthly Beauty Combined Subject(s): Beauty SONNET, TO GENEVRA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes' blue tenderness, thy long fair hair Last Line: With nought remorse can claim -- nor virtue scorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beauty STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home Last Line: And, if not shot or hang'd, you'll get knighted. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could love forever / run like a river Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Time STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, ye notes of woe Last Line: That scatter'd gladness o'er his path. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sorrow STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home Last Line: And, if not shot or hang'd, you'll get knighted. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Freedom STANZAS COMPOSED DURING A THUNDERSTORM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chill and mirk is the nightly blast Last Line: And mourns in search of thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Storms STANZAS FOR MUSIC (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away Last Line: So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Youth And Age Subject(s): Aging STANZAS FOR MUSIC (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name Last Line: Thy lip shall reply, not to them, but to mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Leigh, Augusta; Love STANZAS FOR MUSIC (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There be none of beauty's daughters / with a magic like thee; Last Line: Like the swell of summer's ocean. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): For Music;nature's Daughter Subject(s): Beauty STANZAS FOR MUSIC (4), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that hope is happiness Last Line: Nor dare we think on what we are. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hope; Optimism STANZAS FOR MUSIC (5), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright be the place of thy soul! Last Line: For why should we mourn for the blest? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Soul STANZAS TO A HINDOO AIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! - my lonely - lonely - lonely - pillow! Last Line: Oh! My lone bosom! -- oh! My lonely pillow! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Nostalgia STANZAS TO A LADY ON LEAVING ENGLAND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done - and shivering in the gale Last Line: Yet still he loves, and loves but one. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth STANZAS TO A LADY, WITH THE POEMS OF CAMOENS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This votive pledge of fond esteem Last Line: But not thy hapless fate the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Camoens, Luiz De (1524-1580); Mnemonics STANZAS TO AUGUSTA (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the day of my destiny's over Last Line: Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): To Augusta Subject(s): Love – Complaints STANZAS TO AUGUSTA (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all around grew drear and dark Last Line: Earth is no desert -- ev'n to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Consolation STANZAS TO JESSY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mystic thread of life Last Line: They cannot part -- those souls are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Separation STANZAS TO THE PO, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: River, that rollest by the ancient walls Last Line: [or, and then, at least, my heart can ne'er be moved.] Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Po River, Italy STANZAS WRITTEN IN PASSING THE AMBRACIAN GULF, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen Last Line: But would not lose thee for a world. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story Last Line: I knew it was love and I felt it was glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): All For Love Subject(s): Fame; Love; Youth; Reputation SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind reader! Take your choice to cry or laugh Last Line: Ten thousand just as fit for him as you. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Epitaphs SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS! MELANCHOLY STAR!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Stars; Grief TELEMACHUS AND MENTOR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But not in silence pass calypso's isles Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron THE ADIEU; WRITTEN .. THE IMPRESSION AUTHOR WOULD SOON DIE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, thou hill! Where early joy Last Line: Instruct me how to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE AGE OF BRONZE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 'good old times' - all times when old age good Last Line: This first, you'll have, perhaps, a second 'carmen.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737) THE BLUES; A LITERARY ECLOGUE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're too late Last Line: With my marriage! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Last Line: As weeping beauty's cheek at sorrow's tale! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Orient;the Clime Of The East Subject(s): Turkey THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave Last Line: And dolphins gambol in the lion's den! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians THE CHARITY BALL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What matters the pangs of a husband and a father Last Line: As the saint keeps her charity back for 'the ball!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy THE CONQUEST, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The son of love and lord of war I sing Last Line: And britain's bravest victor was the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): William I, King Of England (1028-1087); William The Conqueror THE CORNELIAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No specious splendor of this stone Last Line: And none remain'd to give the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CORSAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea Last Line: Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Corsairs' Song;song Of The Corsairs;song Of The Rover Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CURSE OF MINERA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run Last Line: And she who raised, in vain regrets, the strife.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sunset In The Morea;morea Subject(s): Peloponnesus, Greece; Morea THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sennacherib Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE DEVIL'S DRIVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devil returned to hell by two Last Line: How many must combine to form one incomprehensible!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Devil THE DREAM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is two-fold: sleep hath its own world Last Line: To end in madness -- both in misery Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sleep Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE DUEL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis fifty years, and yet their fray Last Line: And old ordeal of the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Duels; Musters, Mary Chaworth THE EPISODE OF NISUS AND EURYALUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nisus, the guardian of the portal, stood Last Line: And vanquish'd millions hail their empress, rome! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away with your fictions of flimsy romance Last Line: Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE GIAOUR; A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No breath of air to break the wave Last Line: Of her he loved, or him he slew. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cruelty; Slavery; Turkey; Unfaithfulness; Serfs; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE GIRL OF CADIZ, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh never talk again to me Last Line: May match the dark-eyed girl of cadiz. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Admiration THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.) THE IMMORTAL MIND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When coldness wraps this suffering clay Last Line: Forgetting what it was to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Immortality THE IRISH AVATAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the daughter of brunswick is cold in her grave Last Line: T is the glory of grattan, and genius of moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Ireland; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Irish THE ISLAND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning watch was come; the vessel lay Last Line: As only the yet infant world displays. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bligh, William (1754-1817); Bounty (ship); Mutiny THE LAMENT OF TASSO, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years! It tries the thrilling frame Last Line: To be entwined for ever -- but too late! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Ferrara, Italy; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) THE LISBON PACKET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huzza! Hodgson, we are going Last Line: Ev'n on board the lisbon packet? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Lines To Mr. Hodgson;lines To Mr. Hodgson, Written On Board The Lisbon Packet Subject(s): Sea Voyages THE NEW VICAR OF BRAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know dr. Nott? Last Line: And from bishop sink into backbiter!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Clergy; Nott, George Frederick (1767-1841); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE PRAYER OF NATURE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of light! Great god of heaven Last Line: This erring life may fly at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Prayer THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is gray, but not with years Last Line: Regained my freedom with a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): On Chillon Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Switzerland; Tragedy; Swiss THE PRISONER OF CHILLON: INTRODUCTORY SONNET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Last Line: For they appeal from tyranny to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Freedom's Hero;on The Castle Of Chillon;sonnet On Chillon;on Chillon Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more in man's frail world! Which I Last Line: And make them own the prophet in his tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Exiles THE PROPHECY OF DANTE: DEDICATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! If for the cold and cloudy clime Last Line: Ah! To what effort would it not persuade? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Italy; Italians THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year since jesus died for men Last Line: Thus was corinth lost and won! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Storming Of Corinth Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Courage; Valor; Bravery THE SPELL IS BROKE, THE CHARM IS FLOWN!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Life; Despair THE TEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When friendship or love our sympathies move Last Line: All I ask -- all I wish -- is a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Tears THE VISION OF JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint peter sat by the celestial gate Last Line: I left him practising the hundredth psalm. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Southey, Robert (1774-1843) THE WALTZ, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse of the many-twinkling feet! Whose charms Last Line: Grandsons for me -- in heirs to all his friends. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE WILD GAZELLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild gazelle on judah's hills Last Line: And mockery sits on salem's throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE WORLD IS A BUNDLE OF HAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Earth; England THERE WAS A TIME, I NEED NOT NAME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Complaints THERE'S DOUBTLESS SOMETHING IN DOMESTIC DOINGS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron THEY ACCUSE ME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron THOU ART NOT FALSE, BUT THOU ART FICKLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Fickleness THOUGHTS FOR A SPEECH OF LUCIFER, IN THE TRAGEDY OF 'CAIN', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were death an evil, would I let thee live Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Death THOUGHTS ON FREEDOM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They only can feel freedom truly who Last Line: They die -- or go forth cured, but without kindness Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the midst, surrounded by his peers Last Line: The premium can't exceed the price they pay. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Examinations; Universities & Colleges THY DAYS ARE DONE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy days are done, thy fame begun Last Line: Thou shalt not be deplored. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Martyrs TIS BEING AND DOING AND HAVING THAT MAKE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TIS TO CREATE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my youth's summer I did sing of one Last Line: And feeling still with thee in my crushed feelings' dearth Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TO - (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Well I know your subtle sex Last Line: But where have demons hid thy heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women TO - (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But once I dared to lift my eyes Last Line: But peace be still with thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TO A BEAUTIFUL QUAKER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet girl! Though only once we met Last Line: Of him who never can forget!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Quakers TO A KNOT OF UNGENEROUS CRITICS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rail on, rail on, ye heartless crew! Last Line: Yours is the censure, mine the praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Critics & Criticism TO A LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Had my fate been joined with thine Last Line: To know that thou art lost for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Musters, Mary Chaworth TO A LADY WHO PRESENTED THE AUTHOR WITH THE VELVET BAND WHICH BOUND HER TRESSES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This band, which bound thy yellow hair Last Line: Beneath columbia's fervid zone. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hair TO A LADY WHO PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR A LOCK OF HAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These locks, which fondly thus entwine Last Line: But curse my fate for ever after. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hair TO A LADY, ON BEING ASKED MY REASON FOR QUITTING ENGLAND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When man, expelled from eden's bowers Last Line: Without the wish of dwelling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth TO A VAIN LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, heedless girl! Why thus disclose Last Line: I pity, but I cannot love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Houson, Anne; Vanity TO A YOUTHFUL FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few years have passed since thou and I Last Line: Be something, any thing, but -- mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young oak! When I planted thee deep Last Line: Are lost in the hours of eternity's day. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Time TO ANNE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, anne! Your offences to me have been grievous Last Line: Be false, my sweet anne, when I cease to adore you! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Houson, Anne; Love - Complaints TO ANNE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh say not, sweet anne, that the fates Last Line: His soul, his existence, are centred in you Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Houson, Anne TO BELSHAZZAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar! From the banquet turn Last Line: Unfit to govern, live, or die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Belshazzar TO CAROLINE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes Last Line: Our only hope is to forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief TO CAROLINE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear you express an affection so warm Last Line: And quaff the contents as our nectar below. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Transiensce; Carpe Diem TO CAROLINE (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! When shall the grave hide for ever Last Line: Perhaps they will leave unmolested the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love TO CAROLINE (4), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love, and yet your eye Last Line: But ah! My girl, you do not love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Unrequited TO D -., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thee, I fondly hoped to clasp Last Line: Without thee, where would be my heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO DIVES; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy dives! In an evil hour Last Line: In scorn and solitude unsought, the worst of woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beckford, William (1760-1844); Writing & Writers TO E -, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let folly smile, to view the names Last Line: Since worth of rank supplies the place. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste TO EDWARD NOEL LONG, ESQ., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear long, in the sequestered scene Last Line: Scarce glimmers through the mist of morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TO ELIZA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eliza, what fools are the mussulman sect Last Line: The garden of eden would wither without you. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Pigot, Elizabeth; Women TO ELLEN; IMITATED FROM CATULLUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Might I kiss those eyes of fire Last Line: Could I desist? -- ah! Never -- never! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Imitated Fron Catullus Subject(s): Desire TO EMMA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since now the hour is come at last Last Line: Oh, god! The fondest, last adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO FLORENCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lady! When I left the shore Last Line: T will soothe to be, where thou hast been. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Smith, Spencer, Mrs. TO GEORGE, EARL DELAWARR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh yes, I will own we were dear to each other Last Line: I ask no atonement but days like the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO HARRIET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet! To see such circumspection Last Line: More cautiously to write. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women TO LESBIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lesbia! Since far from you I've ranged Last Line: Fonder, alas! They ne'er can be, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Absence; Leacroft, Julia; Love; Separation; Isolation TO LORD THURLOW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay my branch of laurel down Last Line: And thou shalt have plenty to spare. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hovell-thurlow, Edward (1781-1829); Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855); Thurlow, 2d Baron TO M -, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Did those eyes, instead of fire Last Line: Would twinkle dimly through their sphere. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Eyes TO M. S. G. (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I view those lips of thine Last Line: No martyr shalt thou be to love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beauty TO M. S. G. (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive Last Line: To awake will be torture sufficient. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares TO MARION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marion! Why that pensive brow? Last Line: Know, in a word, 't is animation. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Maltby, Harriet TO MARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! Thou art happy, and I feel Last Line: My foolish heart be still, or break. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Babies; Jealousy; Love - Unrequited; Musters, Mary Chaworth; Infants TO MARY, ON RECEIVING HER PICTURE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This faint resemblance of thy charms Last Line: And meet my fond expiring gaze. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Beauty TO MR. MURRAY (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hook the reader, you, john murray Last Line: A sort of end which I should take indeed ill! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Murray, John (1745-1793) TO MR. MURRAY (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For orford and for waldegrave Last Line: My murray. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Murray, John (1745-1793); Publishing; Publishers TO MR. MURRAY (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strahan, tonson, lintot of the times Last Line: My murray! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Impromptu Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Murray, John (1745-1793); Poetry & Poets TO MY SON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue Last Line: Will ne'er desert its pledge, my boy! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Sons TO ROMANCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parent of golden dreams, romance! Last Line: Alas! Must perish altogether. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TO THE AUTHOR OF A SONNET BEGINNING 'SAD IS MY VERSE', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy verse is 'sad' enough, no doubt Last Line: Tell us you'll read them o'er again. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have ask'd for a verse - the request Last Line: The string which was worthy the strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE DUKE OF DORSET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dorset! Whose early steps with mine have strayed Last Line: Will leave thee glorious, as he found thee great. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TO THE EARL OF CLARE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of my youth! When young we roved Last Line: To prove a prophet here. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO THE HON. MRS. GEORGE LAMB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred song that on mine ear Last Line: When realised again by thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Singing & Singers TO THE SIGHING STREPHON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend Last Line: For it only consists in the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret TO THOMAS MOORE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My boat is on the shore Last Line: And a health to thee, tom moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Friendship;farewell To Tom Moore Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) TO THOMAS MOORE (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you, who in all names can tickle the town Last Line: And you'll be catullus, the regent mamurra. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship TO THOMAS MOORE (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing now Last Line: Oh thomas moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets TO THYRZA (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One struggle more and I am free Last Line: To that which cannot quit the dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of TO THYRZA (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without a stone to mark the spot Last Line: It fain would form my hope in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Farewell TO TIME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time! On whose arbitrary wing Last Line: Must fall upon -- a nameless stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Time TO WOMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! Experience might have told me Last Line: Woman, thy vows are traced in sand.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TOM PAINE, SELS., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TRIPLE RHYME, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But - oh! Ye lords of ladies intellectual Last Line: Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron TRIUMPH OF THE DEFEATED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They never fail who die Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Religion TWO FOSCARI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the prisoner? Last Line: A long and a just one; nature's debt and mine Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Foscari, Francesco (1373-1457); Venice, Italy VENICE COMPARED TO CYBELE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She looks a sea cybele, fresh from ocean Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron VENICE; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight - but it is not dark Last Line: And mary's blessed likeness stands. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENUS DE MEDICI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But arno wins us to the fair white walls Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Approach To Florenc Subject(s): Florence, Italy VERSES FOUND IN A SUMMER HOUSE AT HALES-OWEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought' Last Line: The filth they leave still points out where they crawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) VERSES WORKED IN PINS ON A PIN-CUSHION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to this teeming age of strife Last Line: Hail lovely miniature life Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron VERSICLES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read the christabel Last Line: God damn! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VISION OF BELSHAZZAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was on his throne, Last Line: The persian on his throne!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Belshazzar; Jews; Judaism VISION OF JUDGMENT, SELS., by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron VOICES, SWEEPING THROUGH ALL TIME, PEAL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron WERE MY BOSOM AS FALSE AS THOU DEEM'ST IT TO BE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Faith; God WERNER, OR, THE INHERITANCE; A TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, be calmer! Last Line: Thy curse hath dug it deeper for thy son %in mine! The race of siegendorf is past Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron WHAT NEWS, WHAT NEWS? QUEEN ORRACA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Poetry & Poets WHEN I ROVED A YOUNG HIGHLANDER O'ER THE DARK HEATH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Youth; Love; Scotland WHEN WE TWO PARTED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell WILD, THE FREE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With flowing tail, and flying mane Last Line: Like waves that follow o'er the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron WINDSOR POETICS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Famed for contemptuous breach of sacred ties Last Line: The blood and dust of both -- to mould a george. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in the month of dark december Last Line: For he was drown'd, and I've the ague. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Sea; Travel; Leander; Ocean; Journeys; Trips YOU ASK FOR 'A VOLUME OF NONSENSE'', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron |
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