1788–1824Romanticism18th century

Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

Poems

150 poems

"All Is Vanity, Saith the Preacher"24 lines
A Fragment40 lines
A Sketch107 lines
A Volume of Nonsense13 lines
Address Intended to Be Recited at the Caledonian Meeting44 lines
Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, Saturday, October 10, 181273 lines
Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying5 lines
An Occasional Prologue,36 lines
An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill32 lines
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair72 lines
Another Simple Ballat35 lines
Answer to the Foregoing, Addressed to Miss----16 lines
Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe!32 lines
Ballad. to the Tune of "Salley in Our Alley."58 lines
Bowles and Campbell13 lines
By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept18 lines
Churchill's Grave, a Fact Literally Rendered43 lines
Darkness82 lines
E Nihilo Nihil; or an Epigram Bewitched36 lines
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart36 lines
Elegy2 lines
Epigram on the Braziers' Address to Be Presented in _Armour_ by the Company to Queen Caroline8 lines
Epigram. From the French of RulhièRes6 lines
Epilogue19 lines
Epistle to a Friend,56 lines
Epistle to Mr. Murray66 lines
Epitaph for Joseph Blacket, Late Poet and Shoemaker16 lines
Epitaph on a Beloved Friend48 lines
Euthanasia36 lines
Fare Thee Well75 lines
Farewell to Malta56 lines
Farewell to the Muse40 lines
Fill the Goblet Again. a Song32 lines
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore25 lines
Fragments of School Exercises: From the "Prometheus Vinctus" of Aeschylus,16 lines
Francesca of Rimini48 lines
From the French2 lines
From the Portuguese. "Tu MI Chamas". Another Version4 lines
Granta. a Medley101 lines
Herod's Lament for Mariamne24 lines
Hints From Horace844 lines
I Would I Were a Careless Child56 lines
If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men40 lines
Impromptu6 lines
Jephtha's Daughter20 lines
John Keats8 lines
Journal in Cephalonia6 lines
Julian 61 lines
Last Words on Greece10 lines
Lines Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster4 lines
Lines Addressed to a Young Lady36 lines
Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill60 lines
Lines Written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, by J. J. Rousseau; Founded on Facts."4 lines
Lord Byron's Verses on Sam Rogers78 lines
Love and Death24 lines
My Boy Hobbie O39 lines
My Boy Hobby O32 lines
Napoleon's Farewell24 lines
Napoleon's Snuff-Box4 lines
Newstead Abbey24 lines
Ode From the French104 lines
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte171 lines
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School18 lines
On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 180636 lines
On Leaving Newstead Abbey35 lines
On Lord Thurlow's Poems29 lines
On My Wedding-Day4 lines
On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner4 lines
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus20 lines
On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and Very Dear to Him24 lines
On the Death of Mr. Fox36 lines
On the Eyes of Miss a----H---8 lines
On the Quotation,34 lines
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year40 lines
One Struggle More, and I Am Free56 lines
Parenthetical Address. by Dr. Plagiary59 lines
Prometheus59 lines
Remember Him, Whom Passion's Power52 lines
Reply to Some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of His Mistress48 lines
Saul30 lines
So We'll Go No More a-Roving12 lines
Song for the Luddites15 lines
Song to the Suliotes18 lines
Sonnet on the Nuptials of the Marquis Antonio Cavalli With the Countess Clelia Rasponi of Ravenna14 lines
Sonnet to the Prince Regent. on the Repeal of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture14 lines
Stanzas8 lines
Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm72 lines
Stanzas for Music20 lines
Stanzas to a Hindoo Air16 lines
Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England69 lines
Stanzas to Augusta44 lines
Stanzas to the Po52 lines
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa16 lines
The Bride of Abydos. a Turkish Tale1222 lines
The Chain I Gave. From the Turkish20 lines
The Charity Ball8 lines
The Conquest8 lines
The Cornelian32 lines
The Curse of Minerva314 lines
The Death of Calmar and Orla. an Imitation of MacPherson's "Ossian"122 lines
The Destruction of Sennacherib24 lines
The Duel54 lines
The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus. a Paraphrase From the "ÆNeid," Lib. 9409 lines
The Girl of Cadiz56 lines
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept20 lines
The Lament of Tasso247 lines
The New Vicar of Bray54 lines
The Prayer of Nature64 lines
The Prisoner of Chillon392 lines
The Tear77 lines
The Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn. by Horace Hornem, Esq265 lines
The Wild Gazelle23 lines
Thou Art Not False, but Thou Art Fickle24 lines
Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination72 lines
To a Beautiful Quaker56 lines
To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided With His Own, and Appointed a Night in December to Meet Him in the Garden44 lines
To a Youthful Friend76 lines
To an Oak at Newstead41 lines
To Belshazzar24 lines
To Caroline24 lines
To D--12 lines
To E--12 lines
To Eliza40 lines
To Emma40 lines
To Florence44 lines
To George Anson Byron(?)12 lines
To Lesbia!36 lines
To Lord Thurlow28 lines
To M---28 lines
To Mary, on Receiving Her Picture28 lines
To Mr. Murray19 lines
To Penelope4 lines
To the Countess of Blessington21 lines
To the Earl of Clare105 lines
To the Sighing Strephon54 lines
To Thomas Moore16 lines
To Thyrza56 lines
To Time40 lines
To Woman22 lines
Translation6 lines
Translation From Catullus. AD Lesbiam24 lines
Translation From Vittorelli. on a Nun17 lines
Translation of a Romaic Love Song44 lines
Translation of the Famous Greek War Song, "δεῦτε παῖδεσ τῶν ἑλλήνων."39 lines
Translation of the Romaic Song,36 lines
Venice. a Fragment36 lines
Vision of Belshazzar48 lines
When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay32 lines
When We Two Parted68 lines
Windsor Poetics. Lines Composed on the Occasion of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent Being Seen Standing between the Coffins of Henry VIII. and Charles I., in the Royal Vault at Windsor10 lines