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Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Unabridged)

Read by Jamie Parker

Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Unabridged)

Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Unabridged)

Read by Jamie Parker

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a fascinating portrait of 19th-century Europe, disillusioned and ravaged by the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The protagonist, whose breathtaking journey eerily echoes Byron's own life story, plunges into the exciting unknown: the nature of humanity and the transformative effects of travel burst through the pages in four powerful cantos of Spenserian stanzas. Here is the poem that set Byron on his meteoric rise to fame in London society.

  • Release date: 29th Jun 2015
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Catalogue number: NA0137
  • Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Lord (George Gordon Byron) Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Unabridged)
Work length4:54:44
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Track length3:08
Canto the First
Track length7:52
Come hither, hither, my little page…
Track length8:20
Behold the hall where chiefs were late convened!
Track length7:30
Awake, ye sons of Spain! awake!
Track length7:53
At every turn Morena's dusky height…
Track length7:26
But ne'er didst thou, fair mount…
Track length7:37
Foiled, bleeding, breathless, furious to the last…
Track length5:24
What exile from himself can flee?
Track length6:05
Canto the Second
Track length5:45
Here let me sit upon this mossy stone…
Track length5:08
White is the glassy deck, without a stain…
Track length7:49
Fair Florence found, in sooth with some amaze…
Track length7:30
Ambracia's gulf behold, where once was lost…
Track length7:02
Richly caparisoned, a ready row…
Track length7:57
Childe Harold at a little distance stood…
Track length7:22
Glanced many a light caique along the foam…
Track length5:18
The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow…
Track length5:23
Canto the Third
Track length7:11
Where rose the mountains, there to him…
Track length6:13
Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro,
Track length5:55
The Psalmist numbered out the years of man…
Track length5:34
He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find…
Track length8:10
By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground…
Track length8:25
Is it not better, then, to be alone…
Track length8:01
Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake…
Track length8:46
Clarens! by heavenly feet thy paths are trod…
Track length5:18
But let me quit man's works, again to read…
Track length5:51
Canto the Fourth
Track length7:25
In youth she was all glory, – a new Tyre…
Track length7:22
The moon is up, and yet it is not night…
Track length6:32
Peace to Torquato's injured shade!
Track length7:48
I leave to learned fingers, and wise hands…
Track length8:30
The roar of waters! – from the headlong…
Track length7:59
O thou, whose chariot rolled on…
Track length7:15
Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be…
Track length7:51
Tully was not so eloquent as thou…
Track length7:11
Who loves, raves – 'tis youth's frenzy…
Track length8:08
But I have lived, and have not lived in vain…
Track length7:11
Full swells the deep pure fountain…
Track length8:09
But where is he, the pilgrim of my song…
Track length7:28
Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place…
Track length6:02
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