LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. I. PORTRAIT OF LORD BYRON, FROM A MINIATURE, PAINTED IN 1815 BY JAMES ... 2. FACSIMILE OF TITLE-PAGE OF POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS ... Frontispiece 3. FACSIMILE OF TITLE-PAGE OF HOURS of OF TITLE-PAGE OF POEMS xii ... 5. FACSIMILE OF TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS ... 6. MISS CHAWORTH, FROM A MINIATURE IN THE POSSESSION OF MRS. CHAWORTH MUSTERS, OF WIVERTON 7. ... ... "THESEUS " FROM THE EAST PEDIMENT OF THE PARTHENON, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM ... ... HOURS OF IDLENESS AND OTHER EARLY POEMS. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY.. Why dost thou build the hall, Son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day: yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes: it howls in thy empty court.-OSSIAN.1 I. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle : ii. Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle way. i. On Leaving N... ST... D.-[4to] On Leaving Newstead.-[P. on V. Occasions.] ii. Through the cracks in these battlements loud the winds whistle For the hall of my fathers is gone to decay; And in yon once gay garden the hemlock and thistle Have choak'd up the rose, which late bloom'd in the way.-[4to] 1. [The motto was prefixed in Hours of Idleness.] 2. [The priory of Newstead, or de Novo Loco, in Sherwood, was founded about the year 1170, by Henry II. On the dissolution of the monasteries it was granted (in 1540) by Henry VIII. to "Sir John Byron the Little, with the great beard." His portrait is still preserved at Newstead.] VOL. I. B 2. Of the mail-cover'd Barons, who, proudly, to battle, i. Led their vassals from Europe to Palestine's plain,1 The escutcheon and shield, which with ev'ry blast rattle, Are the only sad vestiges now that remain. 3. No more doth old Robert, with harp-stringing numbers, Raise a flame, in the breast, for the war-laurell'd wreath ; Near Askalon's towers, John of Horistan 2 slumbers, Unnerv'd is the hand of his minstrel, by death. 4. Paul and Hubert too sleep in the valley of Cressy; For the safety of Edward and England they fell : My Fathers! the tears of your country redress ye: How you fought! how you died! still her annals can tell. 5. 4 On Marston,3 with Rupert, 'gainst traitors contending, Four brothers enrich'd, with their blood, the bleak field; i. Of the barons of old, who once proudly to battle.-[4to] 1. [No record of any crusading ancestors in the Byron family can be found. Moore conjectures that the legend was suggested by some groups of heads on the old panelwork at Newstead, which appear to represent Christian soldiers and Saracens, and were, most probably, put up before the Abbey came into the possession of the family.] 2. Horistan Castle, in Derbyshire, an ancient seat of the B-R-N family [4to]. [Horiston.-4to.] 3. The battle of Marston Moor, where the adherents of Charles I. were defeated. 4. Son of the Elector Palatine, and related to Charles I. He afterwards commanded the Fleet, in the reign of Charles II. |