On The Downs (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bedWhere, barren of glory and good,Knowing nought if she would ...
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,And she went by the name of the Captive Maid . . .Built ...
Shall one be sorrowful because of love, Which hath no earthly crown, Which lives and dies, unknown? Because ...
WHAT lapse or accident of timeCan dull that soul's sonorous chimeWhich owns the priceless heritage -Youth's summer warmth in wintry ...
1700-1702Oft in midnight visions Ghostly by my bedStands a Father's image, Pale discrowned head:----I forsook thee, Father! Was no child ...
Through the city's narrow gatewayForth an aged beggar fares,None is there to give him escort,And no farewell word he bears.Heaven's ...
The wailful sweetness of the violin Floats down the hush-ed waters of the wind,The heart-strings of the throbbing harp begin ...
No white cloud sails the lonely sky,Thro' the gaunt trees no breezes sigh,Thro' the lush grass no fall of feet; ...
One moment mankind rides the crested wave, A moment glorious, beyond recall; And then the wave, with slow and massive ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
Where hast thou been since round the walls of Troy The sons of God fought in that great emprise? Why ...
Rome! what a scroll of History thine has been; In the first days thy sword republican Ruled the whole world ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bed Where, barren of glory and good, Knowing nought if she ...
eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula. ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
LET love go, if go she will. Seek not, O fool, her wanton flight to stay. Of all she gives ...
ERE I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace, While I gaze on the light and ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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