Byron's free-spirited lifestyle combined with his rare poetic gift to make him one of the foremost figures of the Romantic Era. This collection of his poems, richly varied in mood and content, captures the essence of his great achievement. Among the thirty-one poems included are convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems.Shorter works such as the famous "She Walks in Beauty," "Stanzas to Augusta" and "So We'll Go No More a Roving" are well represented. Also here are important longer works ? "The Prisoner of Chillon," "Beppo," "The Vision of Judgment," all unabridged ? and lyrics excerpted from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the play Manfred. Taken together, these are poems that draw readers quickly into the passions, humors, and convictions of a poet whose life and work truly embodied the Romantic spirit.

DamaetasI Would I Were a Careless Child'When We Two Parted'Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving EnglandTo FlorenceThe Girl of Cadiz"Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore' (from Canto the First of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; late 1890)"Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos"Maid of Athens, Ere We Part'"From Hebrew Melodies She Walks in Beauty' Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom' The Destruction of Sennacherib Stanzas for Music ('They Say That Hope Is Happiness') Stanzas for Music ('There's Not a Joy the World Can Give') Stanzas for Music ('There Be None of Beauty's Daughters') Fare Thee Well The Prisoner of Chillon Darkness Stanzas to Augusta "When the Moon Is on the Wave' (from Act I, Scene I of Manfred)" So We'll Go No More a Roving' My Boat Is on the Shore' "Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play'" Beppo The Isles of Greece' (from Canto the Third of Don Juan) When a Man Hath No Feedom to Fight for at Home' "Who Killed John Keats?" Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa The Vision of Judgement On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year