Birth Poems (2336 Poems)
From Shadow (Duncan Campbell Scott Poems)
Now the November skies, And the clouds that are thin and gray, That drop with the wind away; A flood of sunlight rolls, In a tide of shallow light, Gold on the land and white On the water, dim and … Continue reading
Death And Birth (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Death and birth should dwell not near together: Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth: Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether Death and birth. Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth Seems that … Continue reading
Birth And Death (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends with one another Birth and death. Each brow-bound with flowers diverse of wreath, Heaven they hail as father, earth as … Continue reading
Mentana : First Anniversary (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten moon Fades, and the twilight is thinned, And the sun leaps up, and the wind, A light rose, not of the day, A stronger light than … Continue reading
To Walt Whitman In America (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be for us More than our singing can be; Ours, in the tempest at error, With no light but the twilight … Continue reading
Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation of the Christian (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend. Thou art more than the day or the morrow, the seasons that laugh … Continue reading
Genesis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the blind first hour of time had birth, Before night knew the moonlight or the morn; Yea, before any world had … Continue reading
Hymn Of Man (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man? The word of the earth to the spheres her sisters, … Continue reading
Tiresias (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me here Outside the hollow house that blind men fear, More blind than I who live on life withdrawn And feel … Continue reading
Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs bowed by servitude, Stop, shift their loads, and pray, and fare Forth with souls easier for the prayer. The suns … Continue reading