- Hebrew Melodies
Hebrew Melodies was a book of songs with lyrics written by Lord Byron set to
Jewish tunes byIsaac Nathan and a book of poems. It was published in April1815 with musical settings - though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sold. In the summer of the same year Byron's lyrics were published as a book of poems.The "melodies" include the famous poems "
She Walks in Beauty ", "The Destruction of Sennacherib " and "Vision of Belshazzar ". A full list is:* She Walks in Beauty
* The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept
* If that high world
* The Wild Gazelle
* Oh! weep for those
* On Jordan's banks
* Jeptha's Daughter
* Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom
* My soul is dark
* I saw thee weep
* Thy days are done
* It is the hour
* Warriors and Chiefs
* We sate down and wept by the waters of Babel
* Vision of Belshazzar
* Herod's Lament for Mariamne
* Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be
* The Destruction of Sennacherib
* Thou whose spell can raise the dead
* When coldness wraps this suffering clay
* Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine
* From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome
* Francisca
* Sun of the sleepless
* Bright be the place of thy soul
* I speak not - I trace not - I breathe not
* In the valley of waters
* A spirit pass'd before me
* They say that Hope is happinessSee also
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1815 in poetry
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