Lord George Gordon Byron's Poetry, by popularity

• Martial, Lib. I, Epig. I.

  'Hic est, quem legis, ille, quern requiris, Tota notus in orbe Martialis,' &c.
  

  8 lines
• To A Lady, Who Presented The Author With The Velvet Band Which Bound Her Tresses

  This Band, which bound thy yellow hair,
    Is mine, sweet girl! Thy pledge of love;

  28 lines
• Epistle From Mr. Murray To Dr. Polidori

  Dear Doctor, I have read your play,
  Which is a good one in its way,­

  80 lines
• From The Last Hill That Looks On Thy Once Holy Dome

  From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome,
  I beheld thee, Oh Sion! when rendered to Rome:

  28 lines
• Lines Addressed To The Rev. J. T. Becher, On His Advising The Author To Mix More With Society

  Dear Becher, you tell me to mix with mankind;
    I cannot deny such a precept is wise;

  42 lines
• To Edward Noel Long, Esq.

  'Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico.'~Horace.
  

  112 lines
• To The Earl Of Clare

  'Tu semper amoris
  Sisd memor, etcari comitis ne abscedat imago'~Val Flac

  121 lines
• Stanzas Written In Passing The Ambracian Gulf

  Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen,
    Full beams the moon on Actium's coast:

  25 lines
• The Chain I Gave: From The Turkish

  The chain I gave was fair to view,
    The lute I added sweet in sound;

  23 lines
• Fragment Of An Epistle To Thomas Moore

  'What say I?'--not a syllable further in prose;
  I'm  your man 'of all measures,' dear Tom,--so here goes!

  28 lines
• On The Star Of 'The Legion Of Honour' (From The French)

  Star of the brave!--whose beam hath shed
  Such glory o'er the quick and dead ­

  47 lines
• The Lament Of Tasso

  Long years!--It tries the thrilling frame to bear
  And eagle-spirit of a child of Song--

  263 lines
• On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, Or Farcical Opera

  Good plays are scarce:
  So Moore writes farce.

  9 lines
• To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair

  And thou art dead, as young and fair
    As aught of mortal birth;

  78 lines
• Verses Found In A Summerhouse At Hales-Owen

  When Dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought,'
  His hours in whistling spent, 'for want of thought,'

  12 lines
• To Thomas Moore : Written The Evening Before His Visit To Mr. Leigh Hunt In Horsemonger Lane Gaol, May 19, 1813

  Oh you, who in all names can tickle the town,
  Anacreon, Tom Little, Tom Moore, or Tom Brown,

  16 lines
• To Belshazzar

  Belshazzar! from the banquet turn,
      Nor in thy sensual fulness fall;

  25 lines
• Monody On The Death Of The Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan

  When the last sunshine of expiring day
  In summer's twilight weeps itself away,

  121 lines
• Epigram: From The French Of Rulhières

  If, for silver or for gold,
    You could melt ten thousand pimples

  7 lines
• The Cornelian

  No specious splendour of this stone
    Endears it to my memory ever;

  38 lines
• To Thomas Moore

  What are you doing now,
  Oh Thomas Moore?

  16 lines
• Epistle To Mr. Murray

  My dear Mr. Murray,
  You're in a damn 'd hurry,

  42 lines
• The Irish Avatar

  'And Ireland, like a bastinadoed elephant,
  kneeling to receive the paltry rider.'~Curran.

  162 lines
• Don Juan: Canto The Tenth

  When Newton saw an apple fall, he found
  In that slight startle from his contemplation--

  780 lines
• Don Juan: Canto The Sixteenth

  The antique Persians taught three useful things,
      To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.

  1166 lines
• Don Juan: Canto The Ninth

  Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame
  Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;

  763 lines
• To An Oak At Newstead

  Young Oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground,
    I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine;

  48 lines
• Inscription On The Monument Of A Newfoundland Dog

  When some proud son of man returns to earth,
  Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth,

  25 lines
• Stanzas Composed During A Thunder-storm

  Chill and mirk is the nightly blast,
    Where Pindus' mountains rise,

  88 lines
• Translation Of The Famous Greek War Song

  Sons of the Greeks, arise!
      The glorious hour's gone forth,

  42 lines

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