The Poems afterwards entitled "Occasional Pieces," which were included in the several editions of the Collected Works issued by Murray, 1819-1831, numbered fifty-seven in all. They may be described as the aggregate of the shorter poems written between the years 1809-1818, which the author thought worthy of a permanent place among his poetical works. Of these the first twenty-nine appeared in successive editions of _Childe Harold_ (Cantos I., II.) [viz. fourteen in the first edition, twenty in the second, and twenty-nine in the seventh edition], while the thirtieth, the _Ode on the Death of Sir Peter Parker_, was originally attached to _Hebrew Melodies_. The remaining twenty-seven pieces consist of six poems first published in the Second Edition of the _Corsair,_ 1814; eleven which formed the collection entitled "Poems," 1816; six which were appended to the _Prisoner of Chillon_, December, 1816; the _Very Mournful Ballad_, and the _Sonnet by Vittorelli_, which accompanied the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, 1818; the _Sketch_, first included by Murray in his edition of 1819; and the _Ode to Venice_, which appeared in the same volume as _Mazeppa_. Thus matters stood till 1831, when seventy new poems (sixty had been published by Moore, in _Letters and Journals_, 1830, six were republished from Hobhouse's _Imitations and Translations_, 1809, and four derived from other sources) were included in a sixth volume of the Collected Works. In the edition of 1832-35, twenty-four new poems were added, but four which had appeared in _Letters and Journals_, 1830, and in the sixth volume of the edition of 1831 were omitted. In the one-volume edition (first issued in 1837 and still in print), the four short pieces omitted in 1832 once more found a place, and the lines on "John Keats," first published in _Letters and Journals_, and the two stanzas to Lady Caroline Lamb, "Remember thee! remember thee," first printed by Medwin, in the _Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824, were included in the Collection. The third volume of the present issue includes all minor poems (with the exception of epigrams and _jeux d'esprit_ reserved for the sixth volume) written after Byron's departure for the East in July, 1809, and before he left England for good in April, 1816.