Favorite Byron

What is your favorite poem by Lord Byron?

This is the kind of subject where I don't know whether to expect silence and cricket chirps or a flood of replies - Byron surely had his day, but is he still popular? Feel free to discuss this as well. He certainly wrote enough things to choose from!

My favorite poem overall has got to be Don Juan (not too surprising there). But if I were to go by category, my favorite verse-tale would be Lara and my favorite drama would be Cain.

He truly came to full self-realization in Don Juan, but the picturesque Gothic elements and grand sweep of Lara are a lot of fun, and that crazy dimension-traveling, visionary episode in Act II of Cain is just fantastic.

What does everybody think?

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Favorite Byron