The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 3 | Page 4

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[Love and Gold.] _MS. M._ 411
Stanzas for Music ["I speak not, I trace not," etc.]. First published, _Fugitive Pieces_, 1829 413
Address intended to be recited at the Caledonian Meeting.?First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 559 415
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.?First published, _Morning Chronicle_, October 7, 1814 417
Julian [a Fragment]. _MS. M._ 419
To Belshazzar. First published, 1831 421
Stanzas for Music ["There's not a joy," etc.]. First?published, _Poems_, 1816 423
On the Death of the Duke of Dorset. _MS. M_ 425
Stanzas for Music ["Bright be the place of thy soul"]. First published, _Examiner_, June 4, 1815 426
Napoleon's Farewell. First published, _Examiner_, July 30,?1815 427
From the French ["Must thou go, my glorious Chief?"]. First published, _Poems_, 1816 428
Ode from the French ["We do not curse thee, Waterloo!"].?First published, _Morning Chronicle_, March 15, 1816 431
Stanzas for Music ["There be none of Beauty's daughters"].?First published, _Poems_, 1816 435
On the Star of "the Legion of Honour." First published,?_Examiner_, April 7, 1816 436
Stanzas for Music ["They say that Hope is happiness"]. First published, _Fugitive Pieces_, 1829 438
The Siege of Corinth.
Introduction to _The Siege of Corinth_ 441
Dedication 445
Advertisement 447
Note on the MS. of _The Siege of Corinth_ 448
_The Siege of Corinth_ 449
Parisina.
Introduction to _Parisina_ 499
Dedication 501
Advertisement 503
_Parisina_ 505
Poems of the Separation.
Introduction to _Poems of the Separation_ 531
Fare Thee Well 537
A Sketch 540
Stanzas to Augusta 544
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, from a Portrait in Oils by T. Phillips, R.A., in the Possession of Mr. John Murray _Frontispiece_
2. H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales, from the Miniature in the Possession of H.M. the Queen, at Windsor Castle _to face p._ 44
3. Lady Wilmot Horton, from a Sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence 380
4. Temple of Zeus Nemeus, from a Drawing by William Pars, A.R.A., in the British Museum 470
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from a Portrait in Oils by T. Phillips, R.A., in the Possession of Mr. John Murray 472
6. The Hon. Mrs. Leigh, from a Sketch by Sir George Hayter, in the British Museum 544
INTRODUCTION TO THE _OCCASIONAL PIECES_
(_POEMS_ 1809-1813; _POEMS_ 1814-1816).
The Poems afterwards entitled "Occasional Pieces," which were included in the several editions of the Collected Works issued by Murray, 1819-1831, numbered fifty-seven in all. They may be described as the aggregate of the shorter poems written between the years 1809-1818, which the author thought worthy of a permanent place among his poetical works. Of these the first twenty-nine appeared in successive editions of _Childe Harold_ (Cantos I., II.) [viz. fourteen in the first edition, twenty in the second, and twenty-nine in the seventh edition], while the thirtieth, the _Ode on the Death of Sir Peter Parker_, was originally attached to _Hebrew Melodies_. The remaining twenty-seven pieces consist of six poems first published in the Second Edition of the _Corsair,_ 1814; eleven which formed the collection entitled "Poems," 1816; six which were appended to the _Prisoner of Chillon_, December, 1816; the _Very Mournful Ballad_, and the _Sonnet by Vittorelli_, which accompanied the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, 1818; the _Sketch_, first included by Murray in his edition of 1819; and the _Ode to Venice_, which appeared in the same volume as _Mazeppa_.
Thus matters stood till 1831, when seventy new poems (sixty had been published by Moore, in _Letters and Journals_, 1830, six were republished from Hobhouse's _Imitations and Translations_, 1809, and four derived from other sources) were included in a sixth volume of the Collected Works.
In the edition of 1832-35, twenty-four new poems were added, but four which had appeared in _Letters and Journals_, 1830, and in the sixth volume of the edition of 1831 were omitted. In the one-volume edition (first issued in 1837 and still in print), the four short pieces omitted in 1832 once more found a place, and the lines on "John Keats," first published in _Letters and Journals_, and the two stanzas to Lady Caroline Lamb, "Remember thee! remember thee," first printed by Medwin, in the _Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824, were included in the Collection.
The third volume of the present issue includes all minor poems (with the exception of epigrams and _jeux d'esprit_ reserved for the sixth volume) written after Byron's departure for the East in July, 1809, and before he left England for good in April, 1816.
The "Separation" and its consequent exile afforded a pretext and an opportunity for the publication of a crop of spurious verses. Of these _Madame Lavalette_ (first published in the _Examiner_, January 21, 1816, under the signature B. B., and immediately preceding a genuine sonnet by Wordsworth, "How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright!") and _Oh Shame to thee, Land of the Gaul!_ included by Hone, in _Poems on his Domestic Circumstances_,