Anima Anceps (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
TILL death have brokenSweet life's love-token,Till all be spoken That shall be said,What dost thou praying,O soul, and playingWith ...
TILL death have brokenSweet life's love-token,Till all be spoken That shall be said,What dost thou praying,O soul, and playingWith ...
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,Crying aloud in thine ears fast ...
THERE WAS a graven image of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground of gold ...
THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou Wast fain to gather ...
BY no dry death another king goes down The way of kings. Yet may no free man's voice, ...
SWEET MOTHER, in a minute's span Death parts thee and my love of thee;Sweet love, that yet art living ...
BEYOND the north wind lay the land of old Where men dwelt blithe and blameless, clothed and fed ...
Blest in death and life beyond man's guessingLittle children live and die, possestStill of grace that keeps them past expressing ...
Strong as death, and cruel as the grave,Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath,Known of death's dread self, whom none ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon Between two dates of death, while men were fain Yet of ...
I. Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
JANUARY HAIL, January, that bearest here On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year That weeps and trembles to be born. Hail, ...
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies ...
He held no dream worth waking; so he said, He who stands now on death's triumphal steep, Awakened out of ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And sorrowful old age that ...
Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing Little children live and die, possest Still of grace that keeps them ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal Even while we hailed as fresh ...
I. Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and ...
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