A Leave-Taking (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
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 ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
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 ...
Praise of the knights of oldMay sleep: their tale is told, And no man cares:The praise which fires ...
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 ...
Put in the sickles and reap; For the morning of harvest is red, And the long large ...
SUN, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears, Rise, let the time of year be May,Speak now the word that April ...
I.LIFT UP thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out ...
I.AT threescore years and five aroused anew To rule in India, forth a soldier went On whose bright-fronted ...
'Not a child: I call myself a boy,'Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,Now nine years have brought him ...
THESE many years since we began to be,What have the gods done with us? what with me,What with my love? ...
Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strongThe heart spake through them, scarce should hope to pleaseEars tuned ...
'Not a child: I call myself a boy,' Says my king, with accent stern yet mild, Now nine years have ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten moon Fades, and the twilight is ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
Put in the sickles and reap; For the morning of harvest is red, And the long large ranks of the ...
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