Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems (225 Poems)
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 whence only the sun was gone:Soft and sweet as the sky they smiled, and bade man welcome: a dim sweet … Continue reading
A Ballad of Death (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy lips and eyelids, let thine earsBe filled with rumour of people sorrowing;Make thee soft raiment out of woven sighsUpon the … Continue reading
A Forsaken Garden (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,At the sea-down’s edge between windward and lee,Walled round with rocks as an inland island,The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.A girdle of brushwood and thorn enclosesThe steep square slope … Continue reading
A Jacobite’s Exile (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi’ flower,And never a flower wi’ dew. I would the day were night for me,I would the night were day:For then would I stand … Continue reading
A Leave-Taking (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
A Leave-Taking Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for singing?time is over,And over all old things and all things dear.She loves not you nor me as we all … Continue reading
A Ballad Of Fran (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest singer bornWhose far shrill note the world of new men hearsCleave the cold shuddering shade as twilight clears;When song new-born … Continue reading
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 where our spirits fain would be,Death, if thou wit? No dome with suns and dews impearled and gilt,Imperial: but some … Continue reading
A Dialog (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,One shelter where our spirits fain would be,Death, if thou wilt? No dome with suns and dews impearled and gilt,Imperial: but … Continue reading
A Ballad of Dreamland (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I hid my heart in a nest of roses,Out of the sun’s way, hidden apart;In a softer bed than the soft white snow’s is,Under the roses I hid my heart.Why would it sleep not? why should it start,When never a … Continue reading
A Clasp Of Hands (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowersThat bask in heavenly heatWhen bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers,Soft, small, and sweet. A babe’s hands open as to greetThe tender touch of oursAnd mock with motion faint and fleet The minutes … Continue reading
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