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 ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
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 ...
I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
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 ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bedWhere, barren of glory and good,Knowing nought if she would ...
A little soul scarce fledged for earthTakes wing with heaven again for goalEven while we hailed as fresh from birth ...
I.Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone,Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one ...
I.Time, thy name is sorrow, says the strickenHeart of life, laid waste with wasting flameEre the change of things and ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies ...
In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
I AM that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal ...
Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild, Though two great spirits had ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? Or ...
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