540

Stanzas to Augusta 544

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, from a Portrait in
Oils by T. Phillips, R.A., in the Possession of Mr.
John Murray _Frontispiece_

2. H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales, from the
Miniature in the Possession of H.M. the Queen, at
Windsor Castle _to face p._ 44

3. Lady Wilmot Horton, from a Sketch by Sir Thomas
Lawrence 380

4. Temple of Zeus Nemeus, from a Drawing by William
Pars, A.R.A., in the British Museum 470

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from a Portrait in Oils
by T. Phillips, R.A., in the Possession of Mr. John
Murray 472

6. The Hon. Mrs. Leigh, from a Sketch by Sir George
Hayter, in the British Museum 544

INTRODUCTION TO THE _OCCASIONAL PIECES_
(_POEMS_ 1809-1813; _POEMS_ 1814-1816).

The Poems afterwards entitled "Occasional Pieces," which were included
in the several editions of the Collected Works issued by Murray,
1819-1831, numbered fifty-seven in all. They may be described as the
aggregate of the shorter poems written between the years 1809-1818,
which the author thought worthy of a permanent place among his poetical
works. Of these the first twenty-nine appeared in successive editions of
_Childe Harold_ (Cantos I., II.) [viz. fourteen in the first edition,
twenty in the second, and twenty-nine in the seventh edition], while the
thirtieth, the _Ode on the Death of Sir Peter Parker_, was originally
attached to _Hebrew Melodies_. The remaining twenty-seven pieces consist
of six poems first published in the Second Edition of the _Corsair,_
1814; eleven which formed the collection entitled "Poems," 1816; six
which were appended to the _Prisoner of Chillon_, December, 1816; the
_Very Mournful Ballad_, and the _Sonnet by Vittorelli_, which
accompanied the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, 1818; the _Sketch_,
first included by Murray in his edition of 1819; and the _Ode to
Venice_, which appeared in the same volume as _Mazeppa_.

Thus matters stood till 1831, when seventy new poems (sixty had been
published by Moore, in _Lette