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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
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 ...
Praise of the knights of oldMay sleep: their tale is told, And no man cares:The praise which fires ...
THREE DAMSELS in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair;She spake a word of God's mother ...
I.AT threescore years and five aroused anew To rule in India, forth a soldier went On whose bright-fronted ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
I AM that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Art thou indeed among these, Thou of the tyrannous crew, The kingdoms fed upon blood, O queen from of old ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips and hands Our staffs and weapons ...
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
STR. 1 I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings, ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories