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 ...
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest ...
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 ...
I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, ...
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
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 ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And ...
I.WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white;Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for frightBecause the ...
I.SEVEN white roses on one tree, Seven white loaves of blameless leaven,Seven white sails on one soft sea,Seven white ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one ...
I.Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thickenThronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,Pass, and ...
I.—VENTIMIGLIAThe sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,A ...
TILL death have brokenSweet life's love-token,Till all be spoken That shall be said,What dost thou praying,O soul, and playingWith ...
I.Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote usAs mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;To the ...
I.Time, thy name is sorrow, says the strickenHeart of life, laid waste with wasting flameEre the change of things and ...
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed,And men still hear what the sweet cry saith,Crying aloud in thine ears fast ...
WHEN the game began between them for a jest,He played king and she played queen to match the best;Laughter soft ...
THESE many years since we began to be,What have the gods done with us? what with me,What with my love? ...
OUT of the depths of darkling life where sin Laughs piteously that sorrow should not know Her own ...
Fate, out of the deep sea's gloom, When a man's heart's pride grows great, And nought seems now to foredoom ...
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 ...
Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover Wails that sorrow should always keep Watch, nor see in the ...
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