George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) was the most famous poet in Europe in his lifetime, and his name became an adjective: the brooding, restless, defiant “Byronic hero.” This collection gathers his public-domain verse: the schoolboy lyrics of Hours of Idleness, the satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, all four cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the Turkish tales (The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, Lara), the Hebrew Melodies, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, Beppo, The Vision of Judgment, every canto of Don Juan, and the late lyrics written in Greece.
Read a fuller life sketch on our About Lord Byron page. This Poetry Catalog archive gathers 345 poems by Byron now live on the site—listed alphabetically below, with links to each full text. The texts follow The Works of Lord Byron: Poetry, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge (7 vols., John Murray, 1898–1904); long works appear one canto per page, and new poems are added to this list as they are published.
Start here: She Walks in Beauty · The Destruction of Sennacherib · So We’ll Go No More A-Roving · When We Two Parted · Darkness · The Prisoner of Chillon · Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto the Third · Don Juan: Canto the First · On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
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Lord Byron Poems
- Address Intended to Be Recited at the Caledonian Meeting
- Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury-lane Theatre, Saturday, October 10, 1812
- The Adieu
- Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying
- The Age of Bronze
- "All Is Vanity, Saith the Preacher"
- And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair
- And wilt Thou weep when I am low?
- Another Simple Ballat
- Answer to a Beautiful Poem, Written by Montgomery, Author of The Wanderer in Switzerland, etc., entitled The Common Lot
- Answer to some Elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author, complaining that one of his descriptions was rather too warmly drawn
- Answer to the Foregoing, Addressed to Miss——
- Answer to ——'s Professions of Affection
- Aristomenes
- Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe!
- Ballad. To the Tune of "Salley in Our Alley"
- Beppo
- Bowles and Campbell
- The Bride of Abydos: Canto the First
- The Bride of Abydos: Canto the Second
- By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept
- "By the Waters of Babylon"
- The Chain I Gave
- The Charity Ball
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the First
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Second
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
- Childish Recollections
- Churchill's Grave, a Fact Literally Rendered
- Condolatory Address
- The Conquest
- The Cornelian
- The Corsair: Canto the First
- The Corsair: Canto the Second
- The Corsair: Canto the Third
- The Curse of Minerva
- Damætas
- Darkness
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- The Devil's Drive
- Don Juan: Canto the Eighth
- Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh
- Don Juan: Canto the Fifteenth
- Don Juan: Canto the Fifth
- Don Juan: Canto the First
- Don Juan: Canto the Fourteenth
- Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
- Don Juan: Canto the Ninth
- Don Juan: Canto the Second
- Don Juan: Canto the Seventeenth
- Don Juan: Canto the Seventh
- Don Juan: Canto the Sixteenth
- Don Juan: Canto the Sixth
- Don Juan: Canto the Tenth
- Don Juan: Canto the Third
- Don Juan: Canto the Thirteenth
- Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
- Don Juan: Dedication
- The Dream
- The Duel
- E Nihilo Nihil; or an Epigram Bewitched
- Egotism. A Letter to J.T. Becher
- Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart
- Elegy
- Elegy on Newstead Abbey
- Endorsement to the Deed of Separation, in the April of 1816
- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- Epigram (In digging up your bones, Tom Paine)
- Epigram (The world is a bundle of hay)
- Epigram on an Old Lady Who Had Some Curious Notions Respecting the Soul
- Epigram on the Braziers' Address to Be Presented in Armour by the Company to Queen Caroline
- Epigram. From the French of Rulhières
- Epigrams
- Epilogue
- The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus. A Paraphrase from the Æneid, Lib. 9
- Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori
- Epistle to a Friend
- Epistle to Augusta
- Epistle to Mr. Murray
- Epitaph
- Epitaph for Joseph Blacket, Late Poet and Shoemaker
- Epitaph for William Pitt
- Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
- Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell, a Carrier, Who Died of Drunkenness
- Euthanasia
- Fare Thee Well
- Farewell Petition to R. C. H., Esqre
- Farewell to Malta
- Farewell to the Muse
- Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer
- Fill the Goblet Again. A Song
- The First Kiss of Love
- A Fragment (Could I remount the river of my years)
- A Fragment (When, to their airy hall, my Fathers' voice)
- Fragment from the "Monk of Athos"
- Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore
- Fragment on the Back of the MS. of Canto I (Don Juan)
- Fragment, Written Shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth
- Fragments of School Exercises: From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus
- Francesca of Rimini
- From Anacreon. Ode 3
- From the French (Must thou go, my glorious Chief)
- From the French (Ægle, beauty and poet, has two little crimes)
- From the Portuguese
- The Giaour
- The Girl of Cadiz
- Granta. A Medley
- The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept
- Herod's Lament for Mariamne
- Hints from Horace
- I Saw Thee Weep
- I would I were a Careless Child
- Ich Dien
- If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men
- If That High World
- Imitated from Catullus. To Ellen
- Imitation of Tibullus. Sulpicia ad Cerinthum
- Impromptu
- Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend
- Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
- The Irish Avatar
- The Island: Canto the First
- The Island: Canto the Fourth
- The Island: Canto the Second
- The Island: Canto the Third
- Jephtha's Daughter
- John Keats
- Journal in Cephalonia
- Julian (A Fragment)
- L'Amitié est L'Amour sans Ailes
- La Revanche
- Lachin y Gair
- The Lament of Tasso
- Lara: Canto the First
- Lara: Canto the Second
- Last Words on Greece
- Lines Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster
- Lines Addressed to a Young Lady
- Lines Addressed to the Rev. J.T. Becher, on his advising the Author to mix more with Society
- Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus
- Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull
- Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
- Lines to a Lady Weeping
- Lines to Mr. Hodgson. Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
- Lines Written Beneath a Picture
- Lines Written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
- Lines written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, by J.J. Rousseau: Founded on Facts"
- Lines Written in an Album, at Malta
- Lines Written on a Blank Leaf of the Pleasures of Memory
- Lord Byron's Verses on Sam Rogers
- Love and Death
- Love and Gold
- Love's Last Adieu
- Lucietta. A Fragment
- Maid of Athens, ere We Part
- Martial, Lib. I. Epig. I
- Mazeppa
- Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan
- The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci: Canto the First
- My Boy Hobbie O
- My Epitaph
- My Soul is Dark
- Napoleon's Farewell
- Napoleon's Snuff-box
- The New Vicar of Bray
- Newstead Abbey
- An Occasional Prologue, Delivered by the Author Previous to the Performance of The Wheel of Fortune at a Private Theatre
- Ode from the French
- Ode on Venice
- Ode to a Lady Whose Lover Was Killed by a Ball, Which at the Same Time Shivered a Portrait Next His Heart
- Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
- An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill
- Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
- Oh! Weep for Those
- On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
- On a Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken
- On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806
- On a Royal Visit to the Vaults
- On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"
- On Finding a Fan
- On Jordan's Banks
- On Leaving Newstead Abbey
- On Lord Thurlow's Poems
- On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera
- On My Thirty-third Birthday. January 22, 1821
- On My Wedding-day
- On Napoleon's Escape from Elba
- On Parting
- On Revisiting Harrow
- On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner
- On the Bust of Helen by Canova
- On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
- On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and very dear to Him
- On the Death of Mr. Fox
- On the Death of the Duke of Dorset
- On the Eyes of Miss A—— H——
- On the Quotation
- On the Star of "The Legion of Honour"
- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
- One Struggle More, and I Am Free
- Oscar of Alva
- Ossian's Address to the Sun in Carthon
- Parenthetical Address
- Parisina
- Pignus Amoris
- The Prayer of Nature
- The Prisoner of Chillon
- Prometheus
- The Prophecy of Dante: Canto the First
- The Prophecy of Dante: Canto the Fourth
- The Prophecy of Dante: Canto the Second
- The Prophecy of Dante: Canto the Third
- Quem Deus Vult Perdere Prius Dementat
- Queries to Casuists
- R. C. Dallas
- Remember Him, Whom Passion's Power
- Remember Thee! Remember Thee!
- Remembrance
- Remind me not, Remind me not
- Reply to some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of his Mistress
- Saul
- She Walks in Beauty
- The Siege of Corinth
- A Sketch
- So We'll Go No More A-Roving
- Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country
- Song for the Luddites
- Song of Saul Before His Last Battle
- Song to the Suliotes
- Song. Breeze of the Night
- Sonnet (Thine eyes' blue tenderness, thy long fair hair)
- Sonnet (Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe)
- Sonnet on Chillon
- Sonnet on the Nuptials of the Marquis Antonio Cavalli with the Countess Clelia Rasponi of Ravenna
- Sonnet to Lake Leman
- Sonnet to the Prince Regent
- The Spell is Broke, the Charm is Flown!
- A Spirit Passed Before Me
- Stanzas (Could Love for ever)
- Stanzas (When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home)
- Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm
- Stanzas for Music (Bright be the place of thy soul)
- Stanzas for Music (I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name)
- Stanzas for Music (There be none of Beauty's daughters)
- Stanzas for Music (There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away)
- Stanzas for Music (They say that Hope is happiness)
- Stanzas to a Hindoo Air
- Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England
- Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns
- Stanzas to Augusta (Though the day of my Destiny's over)
- Stanzas to Augusta (When all around grew drear and dark)
- Stanzas to Jessy
- Stanzas to the Po
- Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf
- Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
- Substitute for an Epitaph
- Sun of the Sleepless!
- The Tear
- There was a Time, I need not name
- Thou Art Not False, but Thou Art Fickle
- Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination
- Thy Days Are Done
- To a Beautiful Quaker
- To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics
- To a Lady
- To a Lady Who Presented the Author with the Velvet Band which bound her Tresses
- To a Lady who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with his own, and appointed a Night in December to meet him in the Garden
- To a Lady, On Being asked my reason for quitting England in the Spring
- To a Vain Lady
- To a Youthful Friend
- To an Oak at Newstead
- To Anne (Oh say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have decreed)
- To Anne (Oh, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous)
- To Belshazzar
- To Caroline (Oh! when shall the grave hide for ever my sorrow?)
- To Caroline (Think'st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes)
- To Caroline (When I hear you express an affection so warm)
- To Caroline (You say you love, and yet your eye)
- To Dives. A Fragment
- To D——
- To Edward Noel Long, Esq
- To Eliza
- To Emma
- To E——
- To Florence
- To George Anson Byron
- To George, Earl Delawarr
- To Harriet
- To Ianthe
- To Lesbia
- To Lord Thurlow
- To M. S. G. (When I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive)
- To M. S. G. (Whene'er I view those lips of thine)
- To Marion
- To Mary, on Receiving Her Picture
- To Mr. Murray (For Orford and for Waldegrave)
- To Mr. Murray (To hook the Reader, you, John Murray)
- To my Son
- To M——
- To Penelope, January 2, 1821
- To Romance
- To the Author of a Sonnet Beginning, "'Sad is my verse,' you say, 'and yet no tear.'"
- To the Countess of Blessington
- To the Duke of Dorset
- To the Earl of Clare
- To the Hon. Mrs. George Lamb
- To the Sighing Strephon
- To Thomas Moore (My boat is on the shore)
- To Thomas Moore (What are you doing now)
- To Thomas Moore. Written the Evening Before His Visit to Mr. Leigh Hunt in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, May 19, 1813
- To Thyrza
- To Time
- To Woman
- To—— (But once I dared to lift my eyes)
- To—— (Oh! well I know your subtle Sex)
- Translation from Anacreon. Ode 1
- Translation from Anacreon. Ode 5
- Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam
- Translation from Catullus. Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque
- Translation from Horace. Justum et tenacem, etc
- Translation from the Medea of Euripides
- Translation from Vittorelli
- Translation of a Romaic Love Song
- Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus
- Translation of the Famous Greek War Song
- Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Medea of Euripides
- Translation of the Romaic Song
- Venice. A Fragment
- Verses Found in a Summer-house at Hales-owen
- A Version of Ossian's Address to the Sun (From "Carthon")
- A Very Mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama
- Vision of Belshazzar
- The Vision of Judgment
- A Volume of Nonsense
- The Waltz
- Well! Thou art Happy
- Were My Bosom as False as Thou Deem'st It to Be
- When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay
- When I Roved a Young Highlander
- When We Two Parted
- The Wild Gazelle
- Windsor Poetics
- A Woman's Hair
- Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos