A Flower-Piece (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,Which would the picture give us of these?Surely the heart that conceived it sought ...
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,Which would the picture give us of these?Surely the heart that conceived it sought ...
But now life's face beholden Seemed bright as heaven's bare browWith hope of gifts withholden But now. ...
A little way, more soft and sweet Than fields aflower with May,A babe's feet, venturing, scarce complete A ...
Child of two strong nations, heirBorn of high-souled hope that smiled,Seeing for each brought forth a fair Child,By thy ...
Greene, garlanded with February's few flowers Ere March came in with Marlowe's rapturous rage; Peele, from whose hand the sweet ...
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
Put in the sickles and reap; For the morning of harvest is red, And the long large ranks of the ...
Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong The heart spake through them, scarce should hope to please ...
Who is your lady of love, O ye that pass Singing? and is it for sorrow of that which was ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be On eyes that keep in sight A baby. Though ...
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten moon Fades, and the twilight is ...
Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over ...
But now life's face beholden Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow With hope of gifts withholden But now. From time's ...
SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers That bask in heavenly heat When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers, ...
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
He held no dream worth waking; so he said, He who stands now on death's triumphal steep, Awakened out of ...
Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses, Out of the sun's way, hidden apart; In a softer bed ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And sorrowful old age that ...
I AM that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal ...
Love, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, ...
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink ...
Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild, Though two great spirits had ...
A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A ...
Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free Heaven awhile, for all the ...
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