[133] ["This morning Lord Byron came from his bedroom into the apartment where Colonel Stanhope and some friends were assembled, and said with a smile--'You were complaining, the other day, that I never write any poetry now:--this is my birthday, and I have just finished something, which, I think, is better than what I usually write.' He then produced these noble and affecting verses, which were afterwards found written in his journals, with only the following introduction: 'Jan. 22; on this day I complete my 36^th^ year.'"--_A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece_, 1825, p. 125, by Count Gamba. In the _Morning Chronicle_, October 29, 1824, the lines are headed, "Lord Byron's Latest Verses," and are prefaced by the following note: "We have been indebted to a friend for the following immortal verses, the last he ever composed. Four of the lines have already appeared in an article in the _Westminster Review_" ("Lord Byron in Greece," July, 1824, vol. ii. p. 227).] [iii] _Is like to_----.--[M.C.] [iv] ----_it is not here_.--[M.C.] [v] ----_seals the hero's bier_.--[M.C.] [vi] _The steed--the Banner--and the Field.--_[MS. B.M.] [134] I. [The slain were borne on their shields. Witness the Spartan mother's speech to her son, delivered with his buckler: "either _with_ this _or on_ this" (B.M. Addit. MS. 31,038).] [vii] _My life-blood tastes_----.--[M.C.] [viii] _I tread reviving_----.--[M.C.] A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SUCCESSIVE EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF LORD BYRON'S _POETICAL WORKS_. COLLECTED EDITIONS. I. The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.] From the last London Edition./ Philadelphia:/ Published by Moses Thomas,/ No. 52, Chesnut Street./ William Fry, Printer./ 1813./ [16º. [A bound copy: smooth blue calf, lettered "LORD BYRON."] _Collation_-- Vol. I.--Title, one leaf; Cont.; Half-title; Dedication; and Text, pp. _1_-203. Vol. II--Title, one leaf; Cont.; Half-title; Preface, etc, pp. i.-xii.; Text, pp. _1_-261. _Contents_-- Vol. I.:--Poems, Original and Translated p. 1 English Bards, etc. p. 137 Vol. II.:--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I. p. 13 (xciii. stanzas) Canto II. (lxxxviii. stanzas) p. 9 Notes p. 99 Poems (xx.) p. 156 The Giaour (1215 lines) p. 205 Note p. 261 _Note_ (Vol. I.).--On fly-leaf: "To the Rt. Honourable Lord Byron from his obt. servant Geo Ticknor, June 20. 1815." "This book was given to me by Lord Byron, April 20, 1816, on his leaving England. Scrope Davies."