A Ballad of Dreamland (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I hid my heart in a nest of roses, Out of the sun's way, hidden apart; In a softer bed ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses, Out of the sun's way, hidden apart; In a softer bed ...
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 ...
Strong as death, and cruel as the grave, Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath, Known of death's dread self, ...
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice Since his birth whose ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Back to the flower-town, side by side, The bright months bring, New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, Freedom and spring. ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
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 ...
Mad March, with the wind in his wings wide-spread, Leaps from heaven, and the deep dawn's arch Hails re-risen again ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
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 ...
Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...
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