Lord Byron
Childe
Harold’s
Pilgrimage
P OETRY
UNABRIDGED
Read by Jamie Parker
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 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.
Jamie Parker is best known for his roles in the films
The History Boys and Valkyrie and the television drama
Van Gogh: Painted with Words. He has also performed
in the television series Foyle’s War, The Hour, Silent
Witness and Silk. His theatre credits include Henry
IV Parts I & II and Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe
and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead at the
Haymarket Theatre. He has read Hardy’s Far From the
Madding Crowd for Naxos AudioBooks.
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 3:08
Canto the First
7:52
Come hither, hither, my little page…
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Behold the hall where chiefs were late convened! 7:31
Awake, ye sons of Spain! awake! 7:54
At every turn Morena’s dusky height…
7:27
But ne’er didst thou, fair mount…
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Foiled, bleeding, breathless, furious to the last… 5:25
What exile from himself can flee?
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Canto the Second
5:46
Here let me sit upon this mossy stone…
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White is the glassy deck, without a stain…
Fair Florence found, in sooth with some amaze…
Ambracia’s gulf behold, where once was lost…
Richly caparisoned, a ready row…
Childe Harold at a little distance stood…
Glanced many a light caique along the foam…
The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow…
Canto the Third
Where rose the mountains, there to him…
Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro,
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The Psalmist numbered out the years of man…
He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find…
By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground…
Is it not better, then, to be alone…
Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake…
Clarens! by heavenly feet thy paths are trod…
But let me quit man’s works, again to read...
Canto the Fourth
In youth she was all glory, – a new Tyre…
The moon is up, and yet it is not night…
Peace to Torquato’s injured shade!
I leave to learned fingers, and wise hands…
The roar of waters! – from the headlong…
O thou, whose chariot rolled on…
Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be…
Tully was not so eloquent as thou…
Who loves, raves – ’tis youth’s frenzy…
But I have lived, and have not lived in vain…
Full swells the deep pure fountain…
But where is he, the pilgrim of my song…
Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place…
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Total running time: 4:55:17 • 4 CDs
Produced by John Foley
Edited and mastered by Ken Barton
p Naxos AudioBooks 2015. Artwork c Naxos AudioBooks 2015.
Hannah Whale, Fruition – Creative Concepts, using images courtesy of Shutterstock.
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CD catalogue no.: NA0137
Digital catalogue no.: NA0137D
CD ISBN: 978-184-379-741-8
Digital ISBN: 978-1-84379-742-5