Lord Byron
The original celebrity poet — Byron’s wit, scandal, and roving narrative verse made him the most famous writer in Europe and the model for the brooding hero.
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know
In this collection
- To Caroline II
- From the Portuguese, Tu MI Chamas
- Versicles
- The Giaour
- To Belshazzar
- Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
- To Romance
- On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
- Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812
- Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
- Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell - a Carrier, who Died of Drunkenness
- Epistle to Mr. Murray
- To a Lady, on being Asked my Reasons for Quitting England in the Spring
- On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner
- Childish Recollections
- On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
- Epitaph: Posterity
- The Tear
- So we'll Go no more a-Roving
- Answer to - s Professions of Affection
- Journal in Cephalonia
- Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori
- Fragment, Written Shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth
- A Sketch
- To Dives
- The Death of Calmar and Orla
- Stanzas to Augusta
- Churchill's Grave, a Fact Literally Rendered
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- To the Earl of Clare
- Well! Thou Art Happy
- Song for the Luddites
- A Spirit Passed before me (from Job)
- To Mr. Murray (for Oxford and for Waldegrave)
- To the Author of a Sonnet, Beginning "Sad is my Verse, you Say, and Yet no Tear"
- Lucietta. a Fragment