1830, July 8. Mrs. Henry Clark, London.

Pardon, I prithee, these my rash designs,
'Tis not ambition's fame that me inclines,
Nor covet I the Poet's well-earn'd fame;
Mine's a mere wish to celebrate thy name.
All other Poet's thou surpass'd as far

As Phœbus' blaze does Heaven's minutest star;
Say, doth thy spirit, freed from mortal clay,
In endless space now freely stray,

Or lies it buried in eternal night?

Perhaps it may, and hard thy fate may seem,
But let the last morning's sun but beam
Then shalt thou rise and thither wing thy way
To realms of bliss and everlasting day.

Then those who lov'd thee thou perchance may see And dwell in scenes of bliss, fit both for them and thee.

W. J.

1830, July 28. A sincere admiration of the immortal works of this great Poet has induced me to visit his last resting-place. When that pile which should have contained his monument is a ruin, his name will be the pride of his country, and when that country is a wreck, his genius will survive even this greater desolation.

"His name shall be his monument alone."

Geo. Meek.

July 27, John Webster, Lowdham Lodge.

July 28. I have been induced to visit the tomb of
Lord Byron from the warmest admiration of the
memory of the first Poet of the age, Byron! a
name that will endure while the calumnies of his
vile and bigotted traducers shall fall into the
oblivion which their envious and contemptible
malice deserves.

John Edward Kidley, M. D.
Belfast, Ireland.

1830, Aug. 9. Aug. 13.

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William Erle, Temple, London.
J. Rolleston.

E. E. Bowes.

Aug. 15. G. D. Phipps, Nottingham.

John Wilson, Bugthorp, Notts.
Ann Wilson, ditto.

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Sept. 14. Rebecca Taylor, Sarah Taylor, Mary

Sept. 26.

Oct. 7.

Travers, Joseph Travers, and John

Taylor Travers.

Mrs. Sales, Sutton in Ashfield.

Mr. and Mrs. Wass, London.

Mrs. Holmes, Nottingham.

Miss Rutt, London.

Miss Callow, ditto.

Miss Wilson, Leeds.

Mrs. Killingley, Nottingham.

Mr. and Mrs. Newham, ditto.

Rev. Henry Cleveland, Rector of Barkston, Leicestershire, visited Lord Byron's Tomb.

"Stat magni nominis umbra."

Rev. John Wentworth Armytage, Rector

of Bulwell.

Mrs. Hayne.

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Chas. Edwin Patchitt.

Nov. 18.

James Collett, Hazelton.

Dec. 18.

John Johnson, Nottingham.

Dec. 26.

Wm. W. Thomas.

Henry Wakeman, Esq. Worcester.
Archibald Johnson, Esq. London.
Richard Daniel, Stoke upon Trent.

Bennet Woodcroft,

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1831, Feb. 13.

ALBUM.

John Bourne, Eastwood.
J. Browne, Brompton, Middlesex.
March 8. E. G. Pickering, 13th visit.
Mr. John Wood, London.

April 29. Hannah T. Monkman, Hull.
Elizabeth Monkman, Hull.

Mary Monkman, Hull.

May 2.

May 11.

Rev. Wm. Fison, St. John's Coll. Camb.
Thos. Keely, Nottingham.

Saml. Moore, Nottingham.

May 14.

Miss Stancer, Woodside, Hants.

Miss E. Best, Thetford, Norfolk.

May 16.

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May 17.

June 23.

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, Ayrshire.
Miss Douglas, Ayrshire.

Mrs. Campbell, Nottingham.
Mrs. Denis Browne.

Rev. Joseph Gilbert, Nottingham.
Ann Gilbert.

Mary Anne Hine.

Maria Cowie, of Hull.

Mary Ann Bradley, Nottingham.

Mary Elizth. Cowie, Hull.

Margaret Sim, Chester.

Anne Taylor Gilbert, Nottingham.

Jane Gilbert.

Saml. Ford Rawson.

Frank Hurt, Beeston.

Benjamin Hornbuckle Hine.

Isaac Chas. Gilbert.

Miss H. Best, Thetford, Norfolk.

ON LORD BYRON.

But one great Poet in an age is born,

That bard was he who did our age adorn.
In his rich verse, grace, genius, splendour shone,
And energy of thought-excell'd by none!
Awe-thrilling grandeur there in brightness play'd,
Shedding a lustre o'er soft Beauty's shade.
As burning Drury, when her flames sublime
In awful grandeur rose, so tower'd his ryhme;

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Like to her splendour was his lofty lay

That bare the palm from rival-bards away.
He all the beauties, all the bard display'd

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That Wharton wish'd for, and that Pope pourtray'd.
The sweet Apollo of our sea-girt Isle!

His magic spell our sorrows could beguile;
On foreign shore fell breasts forgot their ire,
Charm'd by the music of his Orphean lyre.
Like the lorn nightingale in moon-lit bower,
His mournful muse, in many a moody hour,
Woke her fine strains, and sang love's fatal power;
Alike she charm'd, whether Grief's deep-toned chord
She struck, or joy's high note she pour'd.

May 25, 1831.

1831, May 28.

C. Kenworthy, Manchester.

J. Kolm, New Orleans, U. States of
America.

Thos. Evans, Manchester.

Miss Eliza Hopper, Papplewick.

Miss Caroline Hopper, Papplewick.

John Wallington, Macclesfield, visited

Lord Byron's Tomb.

Mr. Chas. Baker, Cambridge.

Hanh. Maria Eddison, Leeds.

John Turvey, Craven Lodge, Halifax.
Daniel Potter, Clare, Suffolk.

Joseph Stone, Ombersley, Worcestershire.
G. Lessom, Worksop, born May 1st, 1794.
James Crondale, Lancaster.

Mrs. Priestley, Dronfield.

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1831, July 6.

Mrs. Roscoe, Dronfield.
Thomas Roscoe.

"Come, then, expressive silence, muse his praise."

July 11.

.. July 14.

July 19.

July 19.

THOMSON.

I would-but cannot-must not-dare not.
T. S. Roscoe.

J. J. Montgomery, near Derby. Crede

Byron !
Miss Barber.

Miss Douglas.

Miss Denis Browne.

Mr. T. Barber.

Miss Woodhouse, Nottingham.
Miss Woodhouse, Chesterfield.
Miss Leaming.

I have gaz'd on thy tomb, I have whisper'd a prayer,
And have given all thou wish'd, all thou ask'd for, a tear.
Ann Watkinson, Derby.

July 19.

Thou Prospero of a thousand isles,
Thou wild enchanter of poetic strain,
Of wilder passions, or the winning smiles,
We ne'er shall look upon thy like again.

Chs. H. Timperley, Manchester.

John T. White, U. S. of America.

Aug. 1.

Aug. 22.

George Thomas, Pennsylvania, U. S. of
America.

Ann Higginbotham, Woodhead.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Coaks, Norwich.

Miss Smith, Nottingham.

Mr. Richard Jackson, Hull.

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