BIB_ID
81738
Accession number
MA 52.42
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1814 Jan. 19
Credit line
Acquired before 1923.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a note in an unknown hand on the verso "Written from memory / by Byron / given to his Sister / on their road to Newstead Abbey."
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a note in an unknown hand on the verso "Written from memory / by Byron / given to his Sister / on their road to Newstead Abbey."
Summary
Being a poem of two stanzas each of eight lines; ending with "Though Grief & Passion there rebel / I only know we loved in vain - / I only feel - Farewell - Farewell!"
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