Hebrew Melodies
Hebrew Melodies is both a book of songs with lyrics written by Lord Byron set to Jewish tunes by Isaac Nathan as well as a book of poetry containing Byron's lyrics alone. It was published in April 1815 with musical settings by John Murray; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sold. In the summer of the same year Byron's lyrics were published as a book of poems.
The melodies include the famous poems She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib and Vision of Belshazzar. A full list is:
- She Walks in Beauty
- The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept
- If that high world
- The Wild Gazelle
- Oh! weep for those
- On Jordan's banks
- Jephtha's Daughter
- Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom
- My soul is dark
- I saw thee weep
- Thy days are done
- It is the hour
- Warriors and Chiefs
- We sate down and wept by the waters of Babel
- Vision of Belshazzar
- Herod's Lament for Mariamne
- Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- Thou whose spell can raise the dead
- When coldness wraps this suffering clay
- Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine
- From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome
- Francisca
- Sun of the sleepless
- Bright be the place of thy soul
- I speak not - I trace not - I breathe not
- In the valley of waters
- A spirit pass'd before me
- They say that Hope is happiness
See also
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Longer poetry |
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Plays |
- Manfred (1817) (text on Wikisource)
- Marino Faliero (1820)
- Sardanapalus (1821)
- The Two Foscari (1821)
- Cain (1821)
- Heaven and Earth (1821)
- Werner (1822)
- The Deformed Transformed (1822)
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Shorter poetry |
- The First Kiss of Love (1806) (text on Wikisource)
- Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination (1806) (text on Wikisource)
- To a Beautiful Quaker (1807) (text on Wikisource)
- The Cornelian (1807) (text on Wikisource)
- Lines Addressed to a Young Lady (1807) (text on Wikisource)
- Lachin y Garr (1807) (text on Wikisource)
- Epitaph to a Dog (1808) (text on Wikisource)
- Maid of Athens, ere we part (1810) (text on Wikisource)
- She Walks in Beauty (1814) (text on Wikisource)
- My Soul is Dark (1815) (text on Wikisource)
- When We Two Parted (1817) (text on Wikisource)
- Love's Last Adieu
- So, we'll go no more a roving (1830) (text on Wikisource)
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