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    Fugitive Pieces
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    Fugitive Pieces

    By George Gordon Byron

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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    George Gordon Byron

    George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), also known as Lord Byron, was a London-born politician and poet who contributed to the Romantic Movement. He was the son of Captain John Gordon and a wealthy Scottish heiress, Catherine Gordon. Gordon was educated at Trinity College but was more interested in the social scene than his studies. Despite his ambivalence, Gordon was a prolific writer with an affinity for politics. He published his first volume of poetry, Hours of Idleness in 1807 and subsequently joined the House of Lords in 1809. Despite his untimely passing at 36, Gordon led a short but accomplished life.

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      Fugitive Pieces - George Gordon Byron

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fugitive Pieces, by George Gordon Noel Byron

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      Title: Fugitive Pieces

      Author: George Gordon Noel Byron

      Release Date: March 15, 2005 [EBook #15368]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FUGITIVE PIECES ***

      Produced by David Starner, William Flis, and the PG Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.

      Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents was added by the transcriber.

      FUGITIVE PIECES

      BY

      GEORGE GORDON NOËL BYRON

      Reproduced from the First Edition

      WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

      BY

      MARCEL KESSEL

      PUBLISHED FOR

      THE FACSIMILE TEXT SOCIETY

      BY

      COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

      NEW YORK: MCMXXXIII

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Bibliographical Note i

      ON LEAVING N--ST--D. 1

      TO E----. 3

      ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, COUSIN TO THE AUTHOR AND VERY DEAR TO HIM. 4

      TO D. ---- 5

      TO ---- 6

      TO CAROLINE. 7

      TO MARIA ---- 10

      FRAGMENTS OF SCHOOL EXERCISES, FROM THE PROMETHEUS VINCTUS OF ÆSCHYLUS. 11

      LINES in LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN AND AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by J.J. ROUSSEAU, founded on facts. 12

      ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS, AT A GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOL. 14

      EPITAPH ON A BELOVED FRIEND. 15

      ADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL, WHEN DYING. 16

      TO MARY. 17

      When to their airy hall,... 19

      TO ---- 20

      When I hear you express an affection so warm,... 21

      ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW ON THE HILL. 1806. 23

      THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION. 25

      TO MARY, ON RECEIVING HER PICTURE. 28

      ON THE DEATH OF Mr. FOX, THE FOLLOWING ILLIBERAL IMPROMPTU APPEARED IN THE MORNING POST. 30

      TO A LADY, WHO PRESENTED THE AUTHOR A LOCK OF HAIR, BRAIDED WITH HIS OWN, AND APPOINTED A NIGHT IN DECEMBER, TO MEET HIM IN THE GARDEN. 31

      TO A BEAUTIFUL QUAKER. 33

      TO JULIA! 36

      TO WOMAN. 38

      AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE DELIVERED BY THE AUTHOR, PREVIOUS TO THE PERFORMANCE OF THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, AT A PRIVATE THEATRE. 39

      TO MISS E.P. 41

      The TEAR. 43

      REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J.M.B. PIGOT, Esq. ON THE CRUELTY OF HIS MISTRESS. 46

      GRANTA, A MEDLEY. 49

      TO THE SIGHING STREPHON. 54

      THE CORNELIAN. 57

      TO A. ---- 59

      AS THE AUTHOR WAS DISCHARGING HIS PISTOLS IN A GARDEN,... 61

      TRANSLATION FROM CATULLUS. AD LESBIAM. 63

      TRANSLATION OF THE EPITAPH ON VIRGIL AND TIBULLUS, by DOMITIUS MARSUS. 64

      IMITATION OF TIBULLUS SULPICIA AD CERINTUM. LIB. QUART. 64

      TRANSLATION FROM CATULLUS. LUCTUS DE NORTE PASSERIS. 65

      IMITATED FROM CATULLUS. TO ANNA. 66

      BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

      Fugitive Pieces, Byron's first volume of verse, was privately printed in the autumn of 1806, when Byron was eighteen years of age. Passages in Byron's correspondence indicate that as early as August of that year some of the poems were in the printers' hands and that during the latter part of August and during September the printing was suspended in order that Byron might give his poems an entire new form. The new form consisted, in part, in an enlargement; for he wrote to Elizabeth Pigot about September that he had nearly doubled his poems partly by the discovery of some I conceived to be lost, and partly by some new productions. According to Moore, Fugitive Pieces was ready for distribution in November. The last poem in the volume bears the date of November 16, 1806.

      A difficulty in supposing the date of completion of the volume to be about November 16 is that two copies contain inscriptions in Byron's hand with earlier dates. On the copy of the late Mr. J.A. Spoor, of Chicago, the inscription reads: October 21st Tuesday 1806—Haec poemata ex dono sunt—Georgii Gordon Byron, Vale. That on the copy in the Morgan library reads: Nov. 8, 1806, H.P.E.D.S.G.G.B., Southwell.—Vale!—Byron, the initials evidently standing for the Latin words of the preceding inscription. The Latin Vale in each inscription, however, suggests that it commemorates a leave-taking, the date referring not

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