A Year’s Carols (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
JANUARY HAIL, January, that bearest here On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year That weeps and trembles to be born. Hail, ...
JANUARY HAIL, January, that bearest here On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year That weeps and trembles to be born. Hail, ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? Or ...
Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside, In a rent stained raiment, the robe of ...
'Not a child: I call myself a boy,' Says my king, with accent stern yet mild, Now nine years have ...
Art thou indeed among these, Thou of the tyrannous crew, The kingdoms fed upon blood, O queen from of old ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
I. Gone, O gentle heart and true, Friend of hopes foregone, Hopes and hopeful days with you Gone? Days of ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten moon Fades, and the twilight is ...
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 ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bed Where, barren of glory and good, Knowing nought if she ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy ...
Put in the sickles and reap; For the morning of harvest is red, And the long large ranks of the ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice Since his birth whose ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear, Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
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