Fugitive Pieces
The TEAR. 43

REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J.M.B. PIGOT, Esq. ON THE CRUELTY OF HIS MISTRESS. 46

GRANTA, A MEDLEY. 49

TO THE SIGHING STREPHON. 54

THE CORNELIAN. 57

TO A. ---- 59

AS THE AUTHOR WAS DISCHARGING HIS PISTOLS IN A GARDEN,... 61

TRANSLATION FROM CATULLUS. AD LESBIAM. 63

TRANSLATION OF THE EPITAPH ON VIRGIL AND TIBULLUS, by DOMITIUS MARSUS. 64

IMITATION OF TIBULLUS "SULPICIA AD CERINTUM." LIB. QUART. 64

TRANSLATION FROM CATULLUS. LUCTUS DE NORTE PASSERIS. 65

IMITATED FROM CATULLUS. TO ANNA. 66

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Fugitive Pieces, Byron's first volume of verse, was privately printed in the autumn of 1806, when Byron was eighteen years of age. Passages in Byron's correspondence indicate that as early as August of that year some of the poems were in the printers' hands and that during the latter part of August and during September the printing was suspended in order that Byron might give his poems an "entire new form." The new form consisted, in part, in an enlargement; for he wrote to Elizabeth Pigot about September that he had nearly doubled his poems "partly by the discovery of some I conceived to be lost, and partly by some new productions." According to 
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