Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage  (1818)  by George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem written by the British poet Lord Byron when at Kinsham. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands; in a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. — Excerpted from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Contents

• To Ianthe
• Canto the First
• To Inez
• Canto the Second
• Canto the Third
• Canto the Fourth

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.