Hebrew Melodies

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Hebrew Melodies was a book of songs with lyrics written by Lord Byron set to Jewish tunes by Isaac Nathan and a book of poems. It was published in April 1815 with musical settings - though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sell. In the summer of the same year Byron's lyrics were published as a book of poems.

The melodies include the famous poems She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib and Vision of Belshazzar. A full list is:

• She Walks in Beauty
• The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept
• If that high world
• The Wild Gazelle
• Oh! weep for those
• On Jordan's banks
• Jeptha's Daughter
• Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom
• My soul is dark
• I saw thee weep
• Thy days are done
• It is the hour
• Warriors and Chiefs
• We sate down and wept by the waters of Babel
• Vision of Belshazzar
• Herod's Lament for Mariamne
• Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be
• The Destruction of Sennacherib
• Thou whose spell can raise the dead
• When coldness wraps this suffering clay
• Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine
• From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome
• Francisca
• Sun of the sleepless
• Bright be the place of thy soul
• I speak not - I trace not - I breathe not
• In the valley of waters
• A spirit pass'd before me
• They say that Hope is happiness

[edit] See also

• 1815 in poetry