A Channel Crossing (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of time ...
I.WHO hath known the ways of time Or trodden behind his feet? There is no such ...
THREE DAMSELS in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair;She spake a word of God's mother ...
I.AT threescore years and five aroused anew To rule in India, forth a soldier went On whose bright-fronted ...
TILL death have brokenSweet life's love-token,Till all be spoken That shall be said,What dost thou praying,O soul, and playingWith ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
Death and birth should dwell not near together: Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth: Fate doth ill ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends ...
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten moon Fades, and the twilight is ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
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