The Complaint of Lisa (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed, And men still hear what the sweet cry saith, Crying aloud in thine ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
The burden of fair women. Vain delight, And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way, And sorrowful old age that ...
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink ...
I. Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and ...
eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula. ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
I. Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame Ere the change ...
Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided, Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist, Seems ...
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one Spake, might the word be said that might speak thee. Streams, ...
In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
I. Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone ...
Who is your lady of love, O ye that pass Singing? and is it for sorrow of that which was ...
I.--VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm ...
Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams ...
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