Romantic

Lord Byron

1788–1824

Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 1788–1824) was an English Romantic poet and satirist, one of the most celebrated — and scandalous — figures of his age.

He died at Missolonghi while supporting the Greek war of independence, and gave his name to the brooding ‘Byronic hero.’

Major Works (2)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — Narrative poem, 1812–1818
Don Juan — Satirical epic, 1819–1824

Poems (315)

She Walks in Beauty
So, We’ll Go No More a Roving
When We Two Parted
On Leaving Newstead Abbey
To E---
On the Death of a Young Lady
To D---
To Caroline ("Think'st thou I saw thy beauteous")
To Caroline ("You say you love and yet")
To Emma
Lines Written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman"
Answer to the Foregoing, Addressed to Miss----
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
A Fragment ("When to their airy hall my")
To Caroline ("Oh when shall the grave hide")
To Caroline ("When I hear you express an")
On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806
Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination
To Mary, on Receiving Her Picture
On the Death of Mr. Fox
To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with His
To a Beautiful Quaker
To Lesbia!
To Woman
An Occasional Prologue
To Eliza
The Tear
Reply to Some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of His Mistress
Granta. A Medley
To the Sighing Strephon
The Cornelian
To M----
Lines Addressed to a Young Lady
To M. S. G. ("Whene'er I view those lips of")
Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns
To M. S. G. ("When I dream that you love")
The First Kiss of Love
Childish Recollections
Answer to a Beautiful Poem, Written by Montgomery
Love's Last Adieu
Lines Addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher
Answer to Some Elegant Verses Sent by a Friend to the Author
Elegy on Newstead Abbey
To George, Earl Delawarr
Damætas
To Marion
Oscar of Alva
Lachin y Gair
To Romance
To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
To a Lady
When I Roved a Young Highlander
To the Duke of Dorset
To the Earl of Clare
I Would I Were a Careless Child
Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
Fragment
Remembrance
To a Lady Who Presented the Author with the Velvet Band Which Bound Her Tresses
To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics
Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country
L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes
The Prayer of Nature
Ossian's Address to the Sun in "Carthon"
Pignus Amoris
A Woman's Hair
Stanzas to Jessy
The Adieu
To---- ("Oh well I know your subtle")
On the Eyes of Miss A----H----
To a Vain Lady
To Anne ("Oh Anne your offences to me")
Egotism. A Letter to J. T. Becher
To Anne ("Oh say not sweet Anne that")
To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning "Sad Is My Verse," You Say, "and Yet No Tear"
On Finding a Fan
To an Oak at Newstead
On Revisiting Harrow
To My Son
Queries to Casuists
Song
To Harriet
There Was a Time, I Need Not Name
And Wilt Thou Weep When I Am Low?
Epistle to a Young Nobleman in Love
Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not
To a Youthful Friend
Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull
Well! Thou Art Happy
Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
To a Lady, on Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England in the Spring
Fill the Goblet Again
Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Hints from Horace
The Curse of Minerva
The Waltz
The Girl of Cadiz
Lines Written in an Album, at Malta
To Florence
Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm
Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf
The Spell Is Broke, the Charm Is Flown!
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
Fragment from the "Monk of Athos"
Lines Written Beneath a Picture
On Parting
Farewell to Malta
Newstead Abbey
Epistle to a Friend
To Thyrza
Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe!
One Struggle More, and I Am Free
Euthanasia
And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair
Lines to a Lady Weeping
If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men
On a Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken
Lines Written on a Blank Leaf of "The Pleasures of Memory"
Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, Saturday, October 10, 1812
Parenthetical Address, by Dr. Plagiary
Verses Found in a Summer-House at Hales-Owen
Remember Thee! Remember Thee!
To Time
Thou Art Not False, but Thou Art Fickle
On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"
On the Quotation ("And my true faith can never stray")
Remember Him, Whom Passion's Power
Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend
Sonnet. To Genevra ("Thine eyes' blue tenderness thy long")
Sonnet. To Genevra ("Thy cheek is pale with thought")
The Giaour
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept
If That High World
The Wild Gazelle
Oh! Weep for Those
On Jordan's Banks
Jephtha's Daughter
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
My Soul Is Dark
I Saw Thee Weep
Thy Days Are Done
Saul
Song of Saul Before His Last Battle
"All Is Vanity, Saith the Preacher"
When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay
Vision of Belshazzar
Sun of the Sleepless!
Were My Bosom as False as Thou Deem'st It to Be
Herod's Lament for Mariamne
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept
By the Waters of Babylon
The Destruction of Sennacherib
A Spirit Passed Before Me
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer
Love and Gold
Stanzas for Music ("I speak not I trace not")
Address Intended to Be Recited at the Caledonian Meeting
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.
Julian (A Fragment)
To Belshazzar
Stanzas for Music ("There's not a joy the world")
On the Death of the Duke of Dorset
Stanzas for Music ("Bright be the place of thy")
Stanzas for Music ("There be none of Beauty's daughters")
Stanzas for Music ("They say that Hope is happiness")
Fare Thee Well
A Sketch
Stanzas to Augusta ("When all around grew drear and")
Sonnet on Chillon
The Prisoner of Chillon
The Dream
Darkness
Churchill's Grave
Prometheus
A Fragment ("Could I remount the river of")
Sonnet to Lake Leman
Stanzas to Augusta ("Though the day of my Destiny's")
Epistle to Augusta
Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan
The Lament of Tasso
Beppo
Ode on Venice
Mazeppa
The Vision of Judgment
On the Bust of Helen by Canova
Venice. A Fragment
Lord Byron's Verses on Sam Rogers
The Duel
Stanzas to the Po
Sonnet on the Nuptials of the Marquis Antonio Cavalli with the Countess Clelia Rasponi of Ravenna
Sonnet to the Prince Regent
Stanzas ("Could Love for ever")
Ode to a Lady Whose Lover Was Killed by a Ball, Which at the Same Time Shattered a Portrait Next Her Heart
The Irish Avatar
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
Stanzas to a Hindoo Air
To---- ("But once I dared to lift")
To the Countess of Blessington
Aristomenes
Epigram on an Old Lady Who Had Some Curious Notions Respecting the Soul
Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell, a Carrier, Who Died of Drunkenness
A Version of Ossian's Address to the Sun
Lines to Mr. Hodgson
Farewell Petition to J. C. H., Esq.
My Epitaph
Substitute for an Epitaph
Epitaph for Joseph Blacket, Late Poet and Shoemaker
On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera
An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill
To the Hon. Mrs. George Lamb
To Thomas Moore ("Oh you who in all names")
On Lord Thurlow's Poems
To Lord Thurlow
The Devil's Drive
Windsor Poetics
On a Royal Visit to the Vaults
Ich Dien
Condolatory Address
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore
Answer to ----'s Professions of Affection
On Napoleon's Escape from Elba
Endorsement to the Deed of Separation, in the April of 1816
Song for the Luddites
To Thomas Moore ("What are you doing now")
To Mr. Murray ("To hook the Reader you John")
Versicles
Quem Deus Vult Perdere Prius Dementat
To Thomas Moore ("My boat is on the shore")
Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori
Epistle to Mr. Murray
On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner
To Mr. Murray ("Strahan Tonson Lintot of the times")
Ballad. To the Tune of "Salley in Our Alley."
Another Simple Ballat
Epilogue
On My Wedding-Day
Epitaph for William Pitt
Epigram ("In digging up your bones Tom")
Epitaph
Epigram ("The world is a bundle of")
My Boy Hobbie O
Lines Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster
A Volume of Nonsense
Stanzas ("When a man hath no freedom")
To Penelope
The Charity Ball
Epigram ("It seems that the Braziers propose")
On My Thirty-Third Birthday
Bowles and Campbell
Elegy
John Keats
To Mr. Murray ("For Orford and for Waldegrave")
The New Vicar of Bray
Lucietta. A Fragment
The Conquest
Impromptu
Journal in Cephalonia
Song to the Suliotes
Last Words on Greece
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
To George Anson Byron (?)
Which Is Which
To Dives. A Fragment
Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Medea of Euripides
R.C. Dallas
La Revanche
E Nihilo Nihil; or, An Epigram Bewitched
Epigram. From the French of Rulhieres
Martial, Lib. I. Epig. I
From the French ("Aegle, beauty and poet," etc.)
Napoleon's Snuff-box
Epigrams
Love and Death
Translation of the Famous Greek War Song
Translation of the Romaic Song ("I enter thy garden of roses")
The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View. From the Turkish
Translation of a Romaic Love Song
From the Portuguese ("Tu mi chamas")
Napoleon's Farewell
From the French ("Must thou go, my glorious Chief?")
Ode from the French ("We do not curse thee, Waterloo!")
On the Star of "the Legion of Honour"
The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale
The Corsair. A Tale
Lara. A Tale
The Siege of Corinth
Parisina
Fragments of School Exercises: From the "Prometheus Vinctus" of Aeschylus
Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying
Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam
Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus
Imitation of Tibullus. Sulpicia ad Cerinthum
Translation from Catullus. Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque
Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen
Translation from Horace. Justum et tenacem
Translation from Anacreon. Ode 1. To His Lyre
From Anacreon. Ode 3
The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
Translation from the "Medea" of Euripides
Translation from Anacreon. Ode 5
Farewell to the Muse
The Prophecy of Dante
The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci
Francesca of Rimini
A Very Mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama
Translation from Vittorelli. On a Nun
The Age of Bronze
The Island

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