A Ballad of Death (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
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 ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
THREE DAMSELS in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair;She spake a word of God's mother ...
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 ...
O LOVE! what shall be said of thee?The son of grief begot by joy?Being sightless, wilt thou see?Being sexless, wilt ...
Child of two strong nations, heirBorn of high-souled hope that smiled,Seeing for each brought forth a fair Child,By thy ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of ...
Who is your lady of love, O ye that pass Singing? and is it for sorrow of that which was ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? Or ...
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear; Keep silence now, ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside, In a rent stained raiment, the robe of ...
Back to the flower-town, side by side, The bright months bring, New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, Freedom and spring. ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear; Keep silence now, ...
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
Child of two strong nations, heir Born of high-souled hope that smiled, Seeing for each brought forth a fair Child, ...
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