A Channel Crossing (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
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 ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
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, ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
THERE is an end of joy and sorrow;Peace all day long, all night, all morrow, But never a time ...
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
FIRST ANTIPHONE.ALL the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee;One night shall be as seven ...
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 ...
Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veerAs the ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bedWhere, barren of glory and good,Knowing nought if she would ...
Put in the sickles and reap; For the morning of harvest is red, And the long large ...
THREE DAMSELS in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair;She spake a word of God's mother ...
I.WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white;Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for frightBecause the ...
LEAVE go my hands, let me catch breath and see;Let the dew-fall drench either side of me; Clear apple-leaves ...
I.SEVEN white roses on one tree, Seven white loaves of blameless leaven,Seven white sails on one soft sea,Seven white ...
LAST high star of the years whose thunder Still men's listening remembrance hears, Last light left of our ...
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 ...
A baby shines as brightIf winter or if May beOn eyes that keep in sight A baby.Though dark the ...
'Not a child: I call myself a boy,'Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,Now nine years have brought him ...
Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,With rising Anthesterion rose,And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros.The sea one pearl, the shore ...
THERE WAS a graven image of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground of gold ...
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