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 ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And ...
THREE DAMSELS in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair;She spake a word of God's mother ...
I.LIFT UP thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out ...
I.WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white;Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for frightBecause the ...
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry ...
I.—VENTIMIGLIAThe sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,A ...
Child of two strong nations, heirBorn of high-souled hope that smiled,Seeing for each brought forth a fair Child,By thy ...
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry or weed. Sweet ...
Art thou indeed among these, Thou of the tyrannous crew, The kingdoms fed upon blood, O queen from of old ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, ...
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear; Keep silence now, ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear; Keep silence now, ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Child of two strong nations, heir Born of high-souled hope that smiled, Seeing for each brought forth a fair Child, ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
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