Hours of Idleness

Hours of Idleness was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old.^[1] It is a collection of mostly short poems, many in imitation of classic Roman poets.

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Lord Byron Topics Barony of Byron The Byronic hero Early life Newstead Abbey Timeline of Lord Byron People Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (wife) Ada Lovelace (daughter) Allegra Byron (daughter) John Byron (father) Claire Clairmont Nicolo Giraud Contessa Guiccioli Jane Harley John Cam Hobhouse Lady Caroline Lamb Augusta Leigh (half-sister) Medora Leigh Thomas Moore John William Polidori Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward John Trelawny Charles Nodier Longer poetry Hours of Idleness (1807) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) The Giaour (1813) The Bride of Abydos (1813) The Corsair (1814) Lara, A Tale (1814) Hebrew Melodies (1815) The Siege of Corinth (1816) Parisina (1816) The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) The Dream (1816) Prometheus (1816) Darkness (1816) The Lament of Tasso (1817) Beppo (1818) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818) Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's death in 1824) Mazeppa (1819) The Prophecy of Dante (1819) The Vision of Judgment (1821) The Age of Bronze (1823) The Island (1823) Plays Manfred (1817) Marino Faliero (1820) Sardanapalus (1821) The Two Foscari (1821) Cain (1821) Heaven and Earth (1821) Werner (1822) The Deformed Transformed (1822) Shorter poetry "The First Kiss of Love" (1806) "Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination" (1806) "To a Beautiful Quaker" (1807) "The Cornelian" (1807) "Lines Addressed to a Young Lady" (1807) "Lachin y Gair" (1807) "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808) "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810) "She Walks in Beauty" (1814) "My Soul is Dark" (1815) "The Destruction of Sennacherib" (1815) "Fare Thee Well" (1816) "When We Two Parted" (1817) "Love's Last Adieu" "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830) Prose Fragment of a Novel (1819) Related Byron (1908 play) Childe Byron (1977 play)