Lord Byron Poems

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? Lord Byron, in a letter to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821

(in alphabetical order)

• And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair
• By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos One through Four

 

• Darkness
• Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play
• The Destruction of Sennacherib
• Don Juan: Dedication

 

• English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
• Epistle to Augusta

 

• Fare Thee Well
• Farewell!
• If Ever Fondest Prayer

 

• The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept

 

• I Would I Were a Careless Child
• Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog

 

• John Keats

 

• Lachin Y Gair
• Lara
• Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull
• Lines to Mr. Hodgson Written on Board the Lisbon Packet

 

• Manfred
• My Soul is Dark
• Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
• On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
• On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill

 

• Prometheus

 

• Remember Thee! Remember Thee!

 

• She Walks in Beauty
• So We'll Go No More a Roving
• Song of Saul Before His Last Battle
• Sonnet on Chillon
• Sonnet to Lake Leman
• Stanzas for Music 1815
• Stanzas for Music 1816
• Stanzas to Augusta
• Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa

 

• The Vision of Judgment
• The World is a Bundle of Hay
• To a Beautiful Quaker
• To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
• To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with His Own, and Appointed at a Night in December to Meet Him in the Garden
• To M.S.G. (manuscript titled "G.G.B. to E.P.")
• To Thyrza

 

• Versicles

 

• When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay
• When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home
• When We Two Parted
• Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos