Hebrew Melodies
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HEBREW MELODIES.
BY LORD BYRON.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1815.
The subsequent poems were written at the request of the author's friend, the Hon. D. Kinnaird, for a Selection of Hebrew Melodies, and have been published, with the music, arranged, by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan.
CONTENTS.
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| She walks in beauty | 3 |
| The harp the monarch minstrel swept | 5 |
| If that high world | 7 |
| The wild gazelle | 9 |
| Oh! weep for those | 11 |
| On Jordan's banks | 12 |
| Jeptha's daughter | 13 |
| Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom | 15 |
| My soul is dark | 17 |
| I saw thee weep | 19 |
| Thy days are done | 21 |
| It is the hour | 23 |
| Song of Saul before his last battle | 24 |
| Saul | 26 |
| "All is vanity, saith the preacher" | 28 |
| When coldness wraps | 30 |
| Vision of Belshazzar | 33 |
| Sun of the sleepless! | 37 |
| Were my bosom as false as thou deemst it to be | 38 |
| Herod's lament for Mariamne | 40 |
| On the day of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus | 42 |
| By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept | 44 |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib | 46 |
| From Job | 49 |
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| Lines on Sir Peter Parker | 51 |
