The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

Chapter 42

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I want a hero: an uncommon want (_Don Juan_, Canto I.), vi. 11

I watched thee when the foe was at our side (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc._), vii. 84

I wish to tune my quivering lyre (_Hours of Idleness_), i. 147

I would I were a careless child (_Hours of Idleness_), i. 205

I would to Heaven that I were so much clay (_Fragment on back of MS. of Don Juan_, Canto I.), vi. 2

If Fate should seal my Death to-morrow (_Hours of Idleness_), i. 247

If for silver, or for gold (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc._), vii. 62

If from great Nature's or our own abyss (_Don Juan_, Canto XIV.), vi. 516

If, in the month of dark December (_Poems 1809-1813_), iii. 13

If sometimes in the haunts of men (_Poems 1809-1813_), iii. 46

If that high world, which lies beyond (_Hebrew Melodies_), iii. 383

Ill-fated heart! and can it be (_Poems 1809-1813_), iii. 48

In Coron's bay floats many a galley light (_Corsair_, Canto II.), iii. 249

In digging up your bones, Tom Paine (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc._), vii. 65

In hearts like thine ne'er may I hold a place (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc._), vii. 40

In law an infant, and in years a boy (_Hours of Idleness_), i. 128

In moments to delight devoted (_Poems 1809-1813_), iii. 71

In Nottingham county there lives at Swan Green (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc._), vii. 1

In one dread night our city saw and sighed (_Poems 1809-1813_), iii. 51

In one who felt as once he felt (_Hours of Idleness_), i. 253

In the beginning was the Word next God (_Morgante Maggiore_, Canto I.),