Byron, George Gordon Lord

Selected Poems Elektronische Ressource - Online-Ressource (213 p) - Dover Thrift Editions .

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Note; Table of Contents; Damætas; 'I Would I Were a Careless Child'; 'When We Two Parted'; Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England; To Florence; The Girl of Cadiz; 'Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore'; Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos; 'Maid of Athens, Ere We Part'; 'She Walks in Beauty'; 'Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom'; The Destruction of Sennacherib; Stanzas for Music; Stanzas for Music; Stanzas for Music; Fare Thee Well; The Prisoner of Chillon; Darkness; Stanzas to Augusta; 'When the Moon Is on the Wave'; 'So We 'll Go No More a Roving'. 'My Boat Is on the Shore''Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play'; Beppo; 'The Isles of Greece'; 'When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home'; 'Who Kill'd John Keats?'; Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa; The Vision of Judgment; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year; Alphabetical List of Titles; Alphabetical List of First Lines.

Richly varied in mood and content, this collection captures the essence of Byron's great poetic achievement. Among the 31 selections: convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are shorter works such as the famous ""She Walks in Beauty,"" ""Stanzas to Augusta"" and ""So We'll Go No More a Roving,"" as well as longer works: ""The Prisoner of Chillon,"" ""Beppo,"" and ""The Vision of Judgment,"" all unabridged. Also here are lyrics excerpted from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the play Manfred. Explanatory footnotes

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