Cor Cordium (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire, Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom; O ...
O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire, Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom; O ...
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? Or ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And sorrowful old age that ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root, Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire, ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear, Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer ...
In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
Eros, from rest in isles far-famed, With rising Anthesterion rose, And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros. The sea one pearl, ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
Who is your lady of love, O ye that pass Singing? and is it for sorrow of that which was ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
I AM that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal ...
from Atalanta in Calydon When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or ...
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