He who, sublime, in epic numbers roll'd,

And he who struck the softer lyre of Love,

By Death's 'unequal'1 hand alike controul'd,

Fit comrades in Elysian regions move!

Footnote: 1. The hand of Death is said to be unjust or unequal, as Virgil was considerably older than Tibullus at his decease.

Lord Byron's Poems - Complete Text

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• Table of Contents
• Preface to the Poems
• Bibliographical Note to 'Hours of Idleness and Other Early Poems'
• Bibliographical Note to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
• Early Poems: On Leaving Newstead Abbey
• Early Poems: To E---
• Early Poems: On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin To the Author, and Very Dear To Him
• Early Poems: To D---
• Early Poems: To Caroline i
• Early Poems: To Caroline 1
• Early Poems: To Emma
• Early Poems: Fragments of School Exercises: From the "Prometheus Vinctus" of Aeschylus
• Early Poems: Lines Written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, By J.J. Rousseau, Founded On Facts"
• Early Poems: Answer to the Foregoing, Addressed to Miss ---
• Early Poems: On a Change of Masters At a Great Public School
• Early Poems: Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
• Early Poems: Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying
• Early Poems: A Fragment
• Early Poems: To Caroline
• Early Poems: To Caroline
• Early Poems: On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow On the Hill, 1806
• Early Poems: Thoughts Suggested By a College Examination
• Early Poems: To Mary On Receiving Her Picture
• Early Poems: On the Death of Mr. Fox
• Early Poems: To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braded With His Own, and Appointed a Night in December to Meet Him in the Garden
• Early Poems: To a Beautiful Quaker
• Early Poems: To Lesbia!
• Early Poems: To Woman
• Early Poems: An Occasional Prologue, Delivered By the Author Previous to the Performance of "The Wheel of Fortune" at a Private Theater
• Early Poems: To Eliza
• Early Poems: The Tear
• Early Poems: Reply to Some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., On the Cruelty of His Mistress
• Early Poems: Granta. A Medley
• Early Poems: To the Sighing Strephon
• Early Poems: The Cornelian
• Early Poems: To M---
• Early Poems: Lines Addresssed To a Young Lady
• Early Poems: Translation from Catullus "Ad Lesbiam"
• Early Poems: Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, By Domitius Marsus
• Early Poems: Imitation of Tibullus "Sulpicia Ad Cerinthum"
• Early Poems: Translation From Catullus "Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque (Carm. III)
• Early Poems: Imitated From Catullus - To Ellen
• Early Poems: To M.S.G
• Early Poems: Stanzas To a Lady, With the Poems of Camoens
• Early Poems: To M.S.G. (second poem)
• Early Poems: Translation From Horace
• Early Poems: The First Kiss of Love
• Early Poems: Childish Recollections
• Early Poems: Answer To a Beautiful Poem, Written By Montgomery, Author of "The Wanderer of Switzerland," etc., Entitled "The Common Lot"
• Early Poems: Love's Last Adieu
• Early Poems: Lines Addressed To the Rev. J.T. Becher, On His Advising the Author To Mix More With Society
• Early Poems: Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By a Friend To the Author, Complaining That One of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn
• Early Poems: Elegy On Newstead Abbey
• Early Poems: To George, Earl Delawarr
• Early Poems: Damaetas
• Early Poems: To Marion
• Early Poems: Oscar of Alva
• Early Poems: Translation From Anacreon Ode 1
• Early Poems: Translation From Anacreon Ode 3
• Early Poems: The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
• Early Poems: Translation From the "Medea" of Euripides L1 627-660
• Early Poems: Lachin Y Gair
• Early Poems: To Romance
• Early Poems: The Death of Calmar and Orla - An Imitation of MacPherson's "Ossian"
• Early Poems: To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
• Early Poems: To a Lady
• Early Poems: When I Roved a Young Highlander
• Early Poems: To the Duke of Dorset
• Early Poems: To the Earl of Clare
• Early Poems: I Would I Were a Careless Child
• Early Poems: Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
• Early Poems: Fragment Written Shortly After the Marriage of Miss Chaworth
• Early Poems: Remembrance
• Early Poems: To a Lady Who Presented the Author With the Velvet Band Which Bound Her Tresses
• Early Poems: To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics
• Early Poems: Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country
• Early Poems: L'amitie, Est L'amour Sans Ailes
• Early Poems: The Prayer of Nature
• Early Poems: Translation From Anacreon Ode 5
• Early Poems: Ossian's Address To the Sun in "Carthon"
• Early Poems: Pignus Amoris
• Early Poems: A Woman's Hair
• Early Poems: Stanzas To Jessy
• Early Poems: The Adieu, Written Under the Impression That the Author Would Soon Die
• Early Poems: To ----
• Early Poems: On the Eyes of Miss A--- H---
• Early Poems: To a Vain Lady
• Early Poems: To Anne
• Early Poems: Egotism, a Letter J.T. Becher
• Early Poems: To Anne
• Early Poems: To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning "'Sad Is My Verse,' You Say, 'and Yet No Tear'"
• Early Poems: On Finding a Fan
• Early Poems: Farewell To the Muse
• Early Poems: To an Oak at Newstead
• Early Poems: On Revisiting Harrow
• Early Poems: To My Son
• Early Poems: Queries To Casuists
• Early Poems: Song
• Early Poems: To Harriet
• Early Poems: There Was a Time I Need Not Name
• Early Poems: And Wilt Thou Weep When I Am Low?
• Early Poems: Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not
• Early Poems: To a Youthful Friend
• Early Poems: Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull
• Early Poems: Well! Thou Art Happy
• Early Poems: Inscription On the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
• Early Poems: To a Lady On Being Asked My Reason For Quitting England in the Spring
• Early Poems: Fill the Goblet Again - A Song
• Early Poems: Stanzas to a Lady, On Leaving England
• English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire
• Hints From Horace
• The Curse of Minerva
• The Waltz
• Sources