Author:George Gordon Byron

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George Gordon Byron (1788–1824)

Commonly referred to as Lord Byron, he was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism, regarded as one of the greatest European poets. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

George Gordon Byron

Works

Poems

1802

• On the Death of a Young Lady
• To E-

1803

• To D-
• Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
• A Fragment ("When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice...")
• On Leaving Newstead Abbey

1804

• Lines ("Dear simple girl, those flattering arts...")
• 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
• Translation from Catullus
• Imitated from Catullus
• Translation from Horace
• From Anacreon ("I wish to tune my quivering lyre...")
• From Anacreon ("'Twas now the hour when Night had driven...")
• From the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus

1805

• To Emma
• To M.S.G.
• To Caroline (Byron)
• Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens
• The First Kiss of Love
• On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
• To the Duke of Dorset
• Fragment

1806

• Granta
• On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill
• To M-
• To Woman
• To M.S.G.
• To Mary
• To Lesbia
• Lines Addressed to a Young Lady
• Love's Last Adieu
• Damaetas
• To Marion
• To a Lady
• Oscar of Alva
• The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
• Translation from the Medea of Euripeded
• Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination
• To a Beautiful Quaker
• The Cornelian
• An Occasional Prologue
• On the Death of Mr. Fox
• The Tear
• Reply to Some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, ESQ., on the Cruelty of his Mistress
• To the Sighting Strephon
• To Eliza
• Lachin y Gair (Dark Lochnagar)
• To Romance
• Answer to Some Elegant Verses Sent by a Friend to that Author, Complaining that one of his Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn
• Elegy on Newstead Abbey
• Childish Recollections
• Answer to a Beautiful Poem
• To a Lady
• Remembrance
• L'amittie est L'amour Sans Ailes
• The Prayer of Nature

1807

• To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
• To a Lady
• I Would I Were a Careless Child
• When I Roved a Young Highlander
• To George, Earl Delawarr
• To the Earl of Clare
• Lines Written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
• The Adieu
• To a Vain Lady
• To Anne
• To the Same
• To the Author of a Sonnet
• On Finding a Fan
• Farewell to the Mise
• To an Oak at Newstead
• On Revisiting Harrow
• Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell
• To My Son

1808

• Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer
• Bright Be the Place of Thy Soul
• When We Two Parted
• 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
• Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not
• There Was a Time, I Need Not Name
• And Wilt Thou Weep When I Am Low
• Fill the Goblet Again

1809

• Stanzas to a Lady, On Leving England
• Lines to Mr. Hodgson
• Occasional Pieces to Florence
• Lines Written in an Album, At Malta
• Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm
• Stanza Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf

1810

• 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
• Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Medea of Euripides
• My Epitaph
• Substitue for an Epitaph

1811

• Lines Written Beneath a Picture

1812

• Remember Thee! Remember Thee!

1813

• The Giaour
• Impromptu, In Reply To A Friend
• From The Portuguese. "Tu Mi Chamas"

1814

• The Corsair

1815

• Jeptha's Daughter ("Since our Country – our God – oh my Sire")
• Warriors and Chiefs
• All Is Vanity, Saith the Preacher
• Vision of Belshazzar ("The King was on his throne")
• The Destruction of Sennacherib ("The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold")
• Thou whose spell can raise the dead
• Francisca ("Francisca walks in the shadow of night")
• A spirit pass'd before me
• They say that Hope is happiness
• My soul is dark
• She walks in beauty
• Stanzas for Music
• Lara

1816

• Darkness
• Fare Thee Well
• Parisina
• Prometheus
• Sonnet on Chillon (also the prelude to The Prisoner of Chillon)
• The Prisoner of Chillon
• The Dream
• The Siege of Corinth

1817

• Beppo
• So We'll Go No More A-Roving

1818

• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

1819

• Mazeppa
• Stanzas to the Po

1820

• When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home

1824

• On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
• Don Juan (left incomplete in 1824)

Epitaphs

• Epitaph to a Dog
• Epitaph for Castlereight

Prose works

• The Death of Calmar and Orla

Dramas

• Manfred, a dramatic poem

Poem Collections

• Hours of Idleness (1807)
• The Hebrew Melodies (1815)

Works about Byron

• “Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord" in The New Student’s Reference Work
• “Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• Lord Byron, by William Hazlitt. Essay in The Spirit of the Age.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.