A Channel Crossing (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,Walled round with rocks ...
IDEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,One shelter ...
I.Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,One shelter ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn?Is it so, that the light ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
THERE is an end of joy and sorrow;Peace all day long, all night, all morrow, But never a time ...
FIRST ANTIPHONE.ALL the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee;One night shall be as seven ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of time ...
I.WHO hath known the ways of time Or trodden behind his feet? There is no such ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
A little soul scarce fledged for earthTakes wing with heaven again for goalEven while we hailed as fresh from birth ...
TAKE HANDS and part with laughter; Touch lips and part with tears;Once more and no more after, Whatever ...
I.LIFT UP thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out ...
SUN, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears, Rise, let the time of year be May,Speak now the word that April ...
I.Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone,Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days ...
O LOVE! what shall be said of thee?The son of grief begot by joy?Being sightless, wilt thou see?Being sexless, wilt ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one ...
I.Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thickenThronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,Pass, and ...
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