Many a time I’ve blazed at him—the fell band’s grey and grizzled member—
But, unluckily, I’ve never brought him down!
F. B. Doveton.
From The Weekly Dispatch, July 18, 1886.
George Gordon, Lord Byron,
Born January 22, 1788. Died April 19, 1824.
yron’s first published volume, entitled Hours of Idleness, contained few poems of note, or that gave promise of his future fame, although the greater number were far too good to justify the savage attack made on them in The Edinburgh Review. Only a few of these poems have been thought worthy of imitation, that entitled “Maid of Athens” apparently being the favourite theme chosen for parodies.