Had I Wist (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playingLight and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,How ...
Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playingLight and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,How ...
Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old That cried on each other,All crying aloud on the ...
My brother, my Valerius, dearest headOf all whose crowning bay-leaves crown their motherRome, in the notes first heard of thine ...
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
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 ...
At the time when the stars are grey, And the gold of the molten moon Fades, and the twilight is ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies ...
Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old That cried on each other, All crying aloud on the ...
In a vision Liberty stood By the childless charm-stricken bed Where, barren of glory and good, Knowing nought if she ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Light and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright ...
Back to the flower-town, side by side, The bright months bring, New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, Freedom and spring. ...
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 ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of ...
WAS it light that spake from the darkness, or music that shone from the word, When the night was enkindled ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
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