The Tenth Volume of BYRON'S Works includes the " Domestic Poemsf
and various incidental effusions, penned during that un- happy period of his life, the separation from his lady ; in addition to Lara, the Hebrew Melodies, the Siege of Corinth, Paris-inc. the Prisoner of Chinon, the Dream, the Monody on Sheridan, and the Ode to Napoleon. These were all written at the time when his mind was under the influence of that distressing event ; and in every one of them may be traced, like a vein in the marble image, its bitter influence. The chronological arrangement of these poems, all of them composed in the space of three years, and before he left Geneva for Italy, adds to their original interest, as the event itself perhaps contributed to their beatify. The original manu- script of the Farewell is blotted all over with his tears. While he sought refuge from his sorrows by pouring them out in splendid verse, they insensibly contributed to deepen his sympathy with the woes of his ideal characters, and to swell the tide of poetic elo- quence in which he narrated them.
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