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 ...
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses,Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;In a softer bed than the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
LAST high star of the years whose thunder Still men's listening remembrance hears, Last light left of our ...
Take, since you bade it should bear, These, of the seed of your sowing, Blossom or berry ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one ...
I.A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet,An angel's lips to kiss, we think, ...
I.Time, thy name is sorrow, says the strickenHeart of life, laid waste with wasting flameEre the change of things and ...
TOM, if they loved thee best who called thee Tom. What else may all men call thee, seeing thus ...
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover,Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers markAs ...
Strong as death, and cruel as the grave,Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath,Known of death's dread self, whom none ...
SORROW, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
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