Tenebrae (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of 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 ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bedWhere, barren of glory and good,Knowing nought if she would ...
Put in the sickles and reap; For the morning of harvest is red, And the long large ...
THREE DAMSELS in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair;She spake a word of God's mother ...
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 ...
SUN, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears, Rise, let the time of year be May,Speak now the word that April ...
I.LIFT UP thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thickenThronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,Pass, and ...
FRIEND of the dead, and friend of all my days Even since they cast off boyhood, I salute ...
I.—VENTIMIGLIAThe sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,A ...
I.AT threescore years and five aroused anew To rule in India, forth a soldier went On whose bright-fronted ...
A baby shines as brightIf winter or if May beOn eyes that keep in sight A baby.Though dark the ...
I.A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet,An angel's lips to kiss, we think, ...
TILL death have brokenSweet life's love-token,Till all be spoken That shall be said,What dost thou praying,O soul, and playingWith ...
'Not a child: I call myself a boy,'Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,Now nine years have brought him ...
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 ...
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,Crying aloud in thine ears fast ...
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