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 ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,Walled round with rocks ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,Which would the picture give us of these?Surely the heart that conceived it soughtHeart's ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn?Is it so, that the light ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
THERE is an end of joy and sorrow;Peace all day long, all night, all morrow, But never a time ...
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 ...
A little soul scarce fledged for earthTakes wing with heaven again for goalEven while we hailed as fresh from birth ...
I.LIFT UP thy lips, turn round, look back for love, Blind love that comes by night and casts out ...
I.WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white;Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for frightBecause the ...
LEAVE go my hands, let me catch breath and see;Let the dew-fall drench either side of me; Clear apple-leaves ...
O LOVE! what shall be said of thee?The son of grief begot by joy?Being sightless, wilt thou see?Being sexless, wilt ...
FRIEND of the dead, and friend of all my days Even since they cast off boyhood, I salute ...
A WILD MOON riding high from cloud to cloud, That sees and sees not, glimmering far beneath, Hell's ...
Blest in death and life beyond man's guessingLittle children live and die, possestStill of grace that keeps them past expressing ...
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,Which would the picture give us of these?Surely the heart that conceived it sought ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided, Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist, Seems ...
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 ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
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