Faustine (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
Farewell, farewell! Before our prow Leaps in white foam the noisy channel,A tourist's cap is on my brow, My legs ...
In Bath a wanton wife did dwelle,As Chaucer he doth write,Who did in pleasure spend her dayes,And many a fond ...
The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing;The skies are clear, and the dawn ...
Repent, or I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight thee with the sword of my mouth.—Revelation ii. 16.IAshkelon ...
BOOK I (excerpt) I sing the man who Judah's sceptre bore In that right hand which ...
'Twas the shrunken soul of the traitor That whined in a coign of the dark; And the fiends were aroused ...
False! Good God, I am dreaming!No, no, it never can be—You who are so true in seeming,You, false to your ...
Once in a dream of Babylon I sat with Lilith and Cain At the world-old drama, "From ...
There is nothing more that they can do For all their rage and boast;Caiaphas with his blaspheming crew, Herod with ...
What great Apostle,When the Christ rose,Met with him secretlyIn the garden close?Fast ran Saint Peter,Fast ran Saint John,When they heard ...
Dead they left Him in the tombAnd the impenetrable gloom,Rolled the great stone to the door,Dead, they thought, forevermore.Then came ...
I like worn hungry housesIn old forgotten ways,A bit like weary peopleWho have known better days;Dilapidated housesWith blinds all hung ...
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...
1914-18 The Babe was laid in the Manger Between the gentle kine -- All safe from cold and danger -- ...
in my reading of the moment i have learned the figure next to christ in da vinci's last supper (a ...
Nothing unimportant all that was written power in that moment the first of his resurrection Mary in the garden waiting ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
Love, light for me Thy ruddiest blazing torch, That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch Of the glad Palace ...
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
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