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CONTENTS.
HOURS OF IDLENESS :-
Pface
On thath of a Young Lady-
To E-"Let folly smile"
To D-
"Hush'd are the winds"
Fage 1
3
"In thee I fondly hoped
Epitaph on a Friend-" Oh, friend! for ever
A Fragment-" When to their airy hall "
On leaving Newstead Abbey-" Through thy battlements", Answer to Lines written in "Letters to an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman," &c.-" Dear simple girl"...
Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying-"Ah! gentle"
Translation from Catullus-" Equal to Jove
Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus—“ He who
sublime"
Imitation of Tibullus-" Cruel Cerinthus"
Translation from Catullus-" Ye Cupids"
Imitated from Catullus.
To Ellen-" Oh! might I kiss
Translation from Horace-"The man of firm and noble soul'
From Anacreon- "I wish to tune 99
-" "Twas now the hour"
the Prometheus Vinctus, &c.-
To Emma-" Since now the hour"
10
-"Great Jove"
M. S. G.-" Whene'er I view those lips'
,, Caroline-"Think'st thou I saw
Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens" This
votive pledge'
The First Kiss of Love-" Away with your fictions"
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School-" Where
are those honours"
To the Duke of Dorset-" Dorset! whose early steps
Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss Cha-
worth-Hills of Annesley"
Granta. A Medley-" Oh! could Le Sage's"
Cu a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow-on-
the-Hill-"Ye scenes of my childhood"
To M-Oh! did those eyes
Woman-"Woman! experience might"
M. S. G.-" When I dream that you love me
,, Mary, on receiving her Picture- This faint,"
HOURS OF IDLENESS-continued.
To Lesbia-" Lesbia! since far from you"
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Lines addressed to a Young Lady, alarmed by a bullet hiss- ing near her "Doubtless, sweet girl"
Love's last Adieu-" The roses of love"
Damætas" In law an infant"
To Marion-" Marion! why that pensive brow
To a Lady who presented to the Author a Lock of Hair
braided with his own-" These locks"
Oscar of Alva. A Tale-" How sweetly shines".
The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus-"Nisus, the guardian'
Translation from the Medea of Euripides-"When fierce'
Thoughts suggested by a College Examination-" High in
the midst
To a beautiful Quaker-"Sweet girl! though only once"
The Cornelian-" No specious splendour".
An Occasional Prologue to "The Wheel of Fortune'
"Since the refinement"
On the Death of Mr. Fox, with the Author's Reply--" Oh
factious viper"
The Tear- When Friendship or Love
Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty
of his Mistress-" Why, Pigot, complain
27
28
30
52
53
To the sighing Strephon-" Your pardon, my friend"
To Eliza" Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect
Lachin y Gair-"Away, ye gay landscapes'
"
55
To Romance-" Parent of golden dreams"
Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the
Author-" Candour compels me
Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled "The Common Lot"
-"Montgomery! true, the common lot"
Elegy on Newstead Abbey-" Newstead! fast-falling" Childish Recollections-"When slow disease"
Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, on his advising
the Author to mix more with Society-"Dear Becher,
you tell me
The Death of Calmar and Orla-"Dear are the days"
To Edward Noel Long, Esq.- "Dear Long, in this
To a Lady-" Oh! had my fate"
"I would I were a careless child"
"When I roved a young Highlander'
To George, Earl Delawar- Oh! yes, I will own
To the Earl of Clare-" Friend of my youth'
Lines written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
-"Spot of my youth"
Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull-" Start
not-nor deem
On revisiting Harrow-" Here once engaged'
ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS
Postscript to the Second Edition
87
114
72
73
Lines written in an Album at Malta-" As o'er the cold”
115
To Florence" Oh Lady! when I left ".
Stanzas composed during a Thunder-storm-"Chill and mirk" 116
Stanzas written on passing the Ambracian Gulf—" Through
cloudless skies"
"The spell is broke, the charm is flown"
Reply to Lines written in the Travellers' Bock at Orchomenus "The modest bard"
"Maid of Athens, ere we part'
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos-" If, in the
nonth"
Lines written beneath a Picture-"Dear object
Translation of the famous Greek War Song-" Sons of the
Greeks"
Translation of the Romaic Song-" I enter thy garden'
THE CURSE OF MINERVA
On Parting-"The kiss, dear maid"
Away, away, ye notes of woe
"One struggle more, and I am free"
Euthanasia "When Time, or soon or late".
"And thou art dead, as young as fair"
"If sometimes in the haunts of men "9
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118
On a Cornelian Heart-"Ill-fated heart
137
Lines to a Lady Weeping-" Weep, daughter
"The chain I gave was fair to view"
To Samuel Rogers, Esq.-" Absent or present
138
Address, spoken at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, Satur-
day, October 10, 1812-" In one dread night".
Verses found in a Summer-house at Hales-Owen-"When
To Time-"Time! on whose arbitrary wing'
148
"Thou art not false, but thou art fickle"
149
"Remember him, whom passion's power".
150
THE GIAOUR: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
152
Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend-" When, from the heart" 182
THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS: A Turkish Tale
183
To Gonevra-" Thine eyes' blue tenderness"
THE CORSAIR.
210
. 212
Windsor Poetics-" Famed for contemptuous".
POEMS ON NAPOLEON
Stanzas for Music-"I speak not, I trace not'
"Fill the goblet again! for I never before
Address intended to have been spoken at the Caledonian Meet-
ing, 1814-" Who hath not glow'd"
Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess of Jersey-" When
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.-
To Belshazzar-" Belshazzar! from the banquet
262
203
265
291
292
"On Jordan's banks"
HEBREW MELODIES-
"She walks in beauty"
"The harp the monarch minstrel swept'
"If that high world"
"The wild gazelle
"Oh! weep for those "
Jephtha's Daughter-" Since our Country'
"Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom"
297
My soul is dark”
"I saw thee weep
298
Thy days are done"
Song of Saul before his last battle-" Warriors and chiefst
299
Saul-"Thou whose spell"
All is Vanity-"Fame, wisdom, love"
300
"Sun of the sleepless
"When coldness wraps this suffering clay"
Vision of Belshazzar-" The King was on his throne"
301
302
"Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be
Herod's Lament for Mariamne-" Oh! Mariamne "
303
On the day of the Destruction of Jerusalem-" From the
last hill
By the Rivers of Babylor-" We sate down and wept
Destruction of Sennacherib-" The Assyrian came
"A spirit pass'd before me"
Stanzas for Music-" There be none"
THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.
Stanzas for Music-" There's not a joy"
PARISINA....
"Fare thee well! and if for ever"
A Sketch-" Born in the garrot
Monody on the Death of Sheridan-"When the last sunshine" 358
Stanzas to Augusta-" Though the day"
361
Epistle to Augusta-" My sister! my sweet sister"
To Lake Leman-"Rousseau-Voltaire, &c."
374
Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was ill- -"And thou wert