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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 130 pages

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long reflective poem in Spenserian stanzas, following a young, world-weary nobleman as he wanders through Europe. It blends travelogue, history, and melancholy meditation, offering Byron's musical verse and vivid Romantic landscapes.

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Opening of the book

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
By Lord Byron
TO IANTHE.   {1}
Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed,
Not in those visions to the heart displaying
Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed,
Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed:
Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek

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Contents

  1. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
  2. TO IANTHE. {1}
  3. CANTO THE FIRST.
  4. CANTO THE SECOND.
  5. CANTO THE THIRD.
  6. CANTO THE FOURTH.
  7. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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