Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies ...
A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be On eyes that keep in sight A baby. Though ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
An hour ere sudden sunset fired the west, Arose two stars upon the pale deep east. The hall of heaven ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
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 ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
I. Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone, Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days of ...
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, ...
I.--VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm ...
Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends ...
Love, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
ALL the bells of heaven may ring, All the birds of heaven may sing, All the wells on earth may ...
Mad March, with the wind in his wings wide-spread, Leaps from heaven, and the deep dawn's arch Hails re-risen again ...
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above, On earth ere twilight reigns: Ere fear may feel the chill thereof, Love's twilight ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice Since his birth whose ...
Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: Thought can see ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
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