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 ...
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest ...
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 ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
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, ...
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 ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
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 ...
I.WHO hath known the ways of time Or trodden behind his feet? There is no such ...
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 ...
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 ...
I.LIFT UP thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out ...
LEAVE go my hands, let me catch breath and see;Let the dew-fall drench either side of me; Clear apple-leaves ...
O LOVE! what shall be said of thee?The son of grief begot by joy?Being sightless, wilt thou see?Being sexless, wilt ...
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry ...
Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,With rising Anthesterion rose,And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros.The sea one pearl, the shore ...
THERE WAS a graven image of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground of gold ...
Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root,Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire,Takes exultant ...
Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
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