WorkGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron

“Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa”

InferredHeaded “On the road from Florence to Pisa” in the notebook. Fuller copied stanzas of this Byron poem (written November 1821). The excerpt on p. 28 is from the opening stanzas; the passage on p. 29 (‘There chiefly I sought thee’) is written sideways and appears to be the closing stanzas of the same poem. The poem meditates on the superiority of love and youth over fame.

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“On the road from Florence to Pisa. 'Oh talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our joy...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Substantial multi-line quoted passage from Byron's poem.

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No datable encounters with Byron, George Gordon, Lord have been catalogued yet.

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p28–29

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“Oh talk not to me of a name great in story; / The days of our youth are the days of our joy; / And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty / Are worth all your laurels though ours so plenty.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Extracts Only." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (88); Box 6 (88).

Inferred Headed “On the road from Florence to Pisa” in the notebook. Fuller copied stanzas of this Byron poem (written November 1821). The excerpt on p. 28 is from the opening stanzas; the passage on p. 29 (‘There chiefly I sought thee’) is written sideways and appears to be the closing stanzas of the same poem. The poem meditates on the superiority of love and youth over fame.