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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.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 ...
LEAVE go my hands, let me catch breath and see;Let the dew-fall drench either side of me; Clear apple-leaves ...
I.SEVEN white roses on one tree, Seven white loaves of blameless leaven,Seven white sails on one soft sea,Seven white ...
I.A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet,An angel's lips to kiss, we think, ...
Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,With rising Anthesterion rose,And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros.The sea one pearl, the shore ...
I.Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote usAs mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;To the ...
I.Time, thy name is sorrow, says the strickenHeart of life, laid waste with wasting flameEre the change of things and ...
Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playingLight and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,How ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
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