The Works of Lord Byron, vol 1 | Page 6

Sun
in "Carthon."] 'MS. Newstead' [Pignus Amoris.] 'MS. Newstead'
[A
Woman's Hair.] 'Works', 1832, vii. 151
Stanzas to Jessy. 'Monthly
Literary Recreations', July, 1807 The Adieu. 'Works', 1832, vii. 195

To----. 'MS. Newstead'
On the Eyes of Miss A----H----. 'MS.
Newstead'
To a Vain Lady. 'Works', 1832, vii. 199
To Anne.
'Works', 1832, vii. 201
Egotism. A Letter to J.T. Becher. 'MS.

Newstead'
To Anne. 'Works', 1832, vii. 202
To the Author of a
Sonnet Beginning, "'Sad is my verse,' you say, 'and yet no tear.'"
'Works', 1832, vii. 202
On Finding a Fan. 'Works', 1832, 203

Farewell to the Muse. 'Works', 1832, vii. 203
To an Oak at Newstead.
'Works', 1832, vii. 206
On Revisiting Harrow. 'Letters and Journals', i.
102
To my Son. 'Letters and Journals', i. 104
Queries to Casuists.
'MS. Newstead'
Song. Breeze of the Night. 'MS. Lovelace'
To
Harriet. 'MS. Newstead'
There was a Time, I need not name.
'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 200
And wilt Thou weep when
I am low? 'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 202
Remind me not,
Remind me not. 'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 197
To a
Youthful Friend. 'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 185 Lines
Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull. First published, 'Childe
Harold', Cantos i., ii. (Seventh Edition), 1814 Well! Thou art Happy.
'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 192 Inscription on the Monument
of a Newfoundland Dog. 'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 190

To a Lady, On Being asked my reason for quitting England in the
Spring. 'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 195
Fill the Goblet
Again. A Song. 'Imitations and Translations', 1809, p. 204
Stanzas to
a Lady, on Leaving England. 'Imitations and
Translations', 1809, p.
227
ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS
HINTS FROM HORACE
THE CURSE OF MINERVA
THE WALTZ
HOURS OF IDLENESS
AND OTHER EARLY POEMS.
ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. [i]

Why dost thou build the hall, Son of the winged days? Thou lookest
from thy tower to-day: yet a few years, and the blast of the desart
comes: it howls in thy empty court.-OSSIAN. [1]
I.
Through thy battlements, Newstead, [2] the hollow winds whistle: [ii]
Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay;
In thy once smiling
garden, the hemlock and thistle
Have choak'd up the rose, which late
bloom'd in the way.
2.
Of the mail-cover'd Barons, who, proudly, to battle, [iii] Led their
vassals from Europe to Palestine's plain, [3] The escutcheon and shield,
which with ev'ry blast rattle, Are the only sad vestiges now that remain.
3.
No more doth old Robert, with harp-stringing numbers,
Raise a flame,
in the breast, for the war-laurell'd wreath; Near Askalon's towers, John
of Horistan [4] slumbers,
Unnerv'd is the hand of his minstrel, by
death.
4.
Paul and Hubert too sleep in the valley of Cressy;
For the safety of
Edward and England they fell:
My Fathers! the tears of your country
redress ye:
How you fought! how you died! still her annals can tell.
5.
On Marston, [5] with Rupert, [6] 'gainst traitors contending, Four
brothers enrich'd, with their blood, the bleak field; For the rights of a
monarch their country defending, [iv] Till death their attachment to
royalty seal'd. [7]
6.

Shades of heroes, farewell! your descendant departing
From the seat
of his ancestors, bids you adieu! [v]
Abroad, or at home, your
remembrance imparting
New courage, he'll think upon glory and you.
7.
Though a tear dim his eye at this sad separation, [vi]
'Tis nature, not
fear, that excites his regret; [vii]
Far distant he goes, with the same
emulation,
The fame of his Fathers he ne'er can forget. [viii]
8.
That fame, and that memory, still will he cherish; [ix]
He vows that
he ne'er will disgrace your renown:
Like you will he live, or like you
will he perish;
When decay'd, may he mingle his dust with your own!
1803.
[Footnote 1: The motto was prefixed in Hours of Idleness.]
[Footnote 2: The priory of Newstead, or de Novo Loco, in Sherwood,
was founded about the year 1170, by Henry II. On the dissolution of
the monasteries it was granted (in 1540) by Henry VIII. to "Sir John
Byron the Little, with the great beard." His portrait is still preserved at
Newstead.]
[Footnote 3: No record of any crusading ancestors in the Byron family
can be found. Moore conjectures that the legend was suggested by
some groups of heads on the old panel-work at Newstead, which appear
to represent Christian soldiers and Saracens, and were, most probably,
put up before the Abbey came into the possession of the family.]
[Footnote 4: Horistan Castle, in Derbyshire, an ancient seat of the
B--R--N family [4to]. (Horiston.--4to.)]
[Footnote 5: The battle of Marston Moor, where the adherents of
Charles I. were defeated.]

[Footnote 6: Son of the Elector Palatine, and related to Charles I. He
afterwards commanded the Fleet, in the reign of Charles II.]
[Footnote 7: Sir Nicholas Byron, the great-grandson of Sir John Byron
the Little, distinguished himself in the Civil Wars. He is described by
Clarendon