MISCELLANIES.

BY

LORD BYRON.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXVII.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

HOURS OF IDLENESS; A SERIES OF POEMS,

ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED

DEDICATION

PREFACE

On the Death of a young Lady, Cousin to the Author,

and very dear to him

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Lines written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an En-

glish Gentleman; by J. J. Rousseau: founded on Facts"

Answer to the foregoing, addressed to Miss

Adrian's Address to his Soul when dying

Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam

Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by

Domitius Marsus

Imitation of Tibullus. "Sulpicia ad Cerinthum"

Translation from Catullus. "Lugete Veneres, Cupidi-

nesque," &c.

Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen

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Translation from Horace. "Justum et tenacem," &c.

From Anacreon. [Θελω λεγειν Ατρείδας.]

From Anacreon. [Μεσονυκτίαις ποθ' ώραις.]

From the Prometheus Vinctus of Eschylus.

[Μηδαμ ̓ ὁ

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To Emma

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πάντα νέμων, κ. τ. λ.

To M. S. G.

To Caroline

To the Same

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To the Same

Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns

The First Kiss of Love

On a Change of Masters at a great Public School

To the Duke of Dorset

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Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss

Chaworth

Granta. A Medley

On a distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on

the Hill

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Lines addressed to a young Lady, who was alarmed at the

Sound of a Bullet hissing near her

To a Lady who presented to the Author a Lock of Hair

Translation from the Medea of Euripides. [Egwris irig