Hours of Idleness
George Gordon, Lord Byron
41 chapters · 2 h 56 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, quartertone, nighthawks, De Anna Lee, KevinS, Larry Wilson and others
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Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provides translations of, and poems written in imitation of, earlier mainly classical poets.
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 POEMS: On leaving Newstead Abbey 3 min 3 On a distant view of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill 3 min 4 Epitaph on a Friend 2 min 5 A Fragment 1 min 6 The Tear 5 min 7 An occasional Prologue 3 min 8 On the Death of Mr. Fox 3 min 9 Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens 1 min 10 The first Kiss of Love 2 min 11 To M------ 2 min 12 To Woman 1 min 13 To M. S. G 1 min 14 To a beautiful Quaker 4 min 15 To -------- 3 min 16 To Mary, on receiving her Picture 2 min 17 Love's last Adieu 4 min 18 Damaetas 1 min 19 To Marion 3 min 20 Oscar of Alva 15 min 21 TRANSLATIONS and IMITATIONS: Adrian's Address to his Soul, when dying 1 min 22 Translation 1 min 23 Translation from Catullus 2 min 24 Translation from the Epitaph of Virgil and Tibullus 1 min 25 Translation from Catullus 2 min 26 Imitated from Catullus 1 min 27 Translation from Anacreon. To his Lyre 1 min 28 Translation from Anacreon. Ode 3 3 min 29 Fragments of School Exercises 1 min 30 Episode of Nisus and Euryalus 20 min 31 Translation from the Medea of Euripides 4 min 32 FUGITIVE PIECES: Thoughts suggested by a College Examination 4 min 33 Answer to some elegant Verses, sent by a Friend to the Author 4 min 34 Grant, a Medley 6 min 35 Lachin Y. Gair 3 min 36 To Romance 4 min 37 Elegy on Newstead Abbey 12 min 38 Childish Recollections 24 min 39 The Death of Calmar and Orla 13 min 40 To E. N. L. Esq 4 min 41 To -------- 3 min
