Song Before Death: From the French (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
SWEET MOTHER, in a minute's span Death parts thee and my love of thee;Sweet love, that yet art living ...
SWEET MOTHER, in a minute's span Death parts thee and my love of thee;Sweet love, that yet art living ...
Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root,Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire,Takes exultant ...
Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses,Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but noughtIn a song can be ...
Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playingLight and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,How ...
Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure,Insepulchred and deathless, through the denseDeep elements may scarce be felt as pure Soul within ...
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,Which would the picture give us of these?Surely the heart that conceived it sought ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure, Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure Soul ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors, Storm-stained ravines, and crags that lawns inlay, Soothes as with love ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula. ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai ...
Send the stars light, but send not love to me. Shelley. I Out of the dawning heavens that hear Young ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bed Where, barren of glory and good, Knowing nought if she ...
JANUARY HAIL, January, that bearest here On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year That weeps and trembles to be born. Hail, ...
Beneath the shadow of dawn's aërial cope, With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere, Hope from the front of ...
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds ...
A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be On eyes that keep in sight A baby. Though ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, ...
Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside, In a rent stained raiment, the robe of ...
He held no dream worth waking; so he said, He who stands now on death's triumphal steep, Awakened out of ...
Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root, Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire, ...
Love, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, ...
I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies ...
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