A Dialogue (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
IDEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,One shelter ...
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 ...
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 ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
I.WHO hath known the ways of time Or trodden behind his feet? There is no such ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
TAKE HANDS and part with laughter; Touch lips and part with tears;Once more and no more after, Whatever ...
I.Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone,Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days ...
I.WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white;Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for frightBecause the ...
O LOVE! what shall be said of thee?The son of grief begot by joy?Being sightless, wilt thou see?Being sexless, wilt ...
I.SEVEN white roses on one tree, Seven white loaves of blameless leaven,Seven white sails on one soft sea,Seven white ...
TILL death have brokenSweet life's love-token,Till all be spoken That shall be said,What dost thou praying,O soul, and playingWith ...
THESE many years since we began to be,What have the gods done with us? what with me,What with my love? ...
THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou Wast fain to gather ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear, Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer ...
I DEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
I. Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
I. Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone, Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days of ...
Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over ...
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories