Hebrew Melodies is both a book of songs with lyrics written by Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS , commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement...

 set to Jewish tunes by Isaac Nathan

Isaac Nathan

Isaac Nathan was an Anglo-Australian composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who ended an eventful career by becoming the "father of Australian music".-Early success:...

 as well as a book of poetry containing Byron's lyrics alone. It was published in April 1815 with musical settings by John Murray

John Murray (publisher)

John Murray is an English publisher, renowned for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, and Charles Darwin...

; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sold. 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

She Walks in Beauty

"She Walks in Beauty" is a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron. One of Lord Byron’s most famous, it is a narrative poem that describes a woman of much beauty and elegance. The poem appears to be told from the view point of third person omniscient. There are no hints as to the identity of the...

, The Destruction of Sennacherib

The Destruction of Sennacherib

The Destruction of Sennacherib is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his Hebrew Melodies. It is based on an event described in the Bible during the campaign by Assyrian king Sennacherib to capture Jerusalem...

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
• Jephtha'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