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 ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems (225 Poems)
A Ballad of Death (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
A Forsaken Garden (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,Walled round with rocks ...
A Jacobite’s Exile (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
A Leave-Taking (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
A Leave-TakingLet us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.Let us go hence together without fear;Keep silence now, for ...
A Ballad Of Fran (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest ...
A Dialogue (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
IDEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,One shelter ...
A Dialog (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I.Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,One shelter ...
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 than the ...
A Clasp Of Hands (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowersThat bask in heavenly heatWhen bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers,Soft, small, and ...
A Child’s Laughter (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
ALL the bells of heaven may ring,All the birds of heaven may sing,All the wells on earth may spring,All the ...
A Flower-Piece By Fantin (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,Which would the picture give us of these?Surely the heart that conceived it soughtHeart's ...
Tiresias (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
The Halt Before Rome–Septem (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn?Is it so, that the light ...
A Marching Song (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
We mix from many lands, We march for very far; In hearts and lips ...
Anactoria (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
Hertha (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, ...
Prelude (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Between the green bud and the redYouth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Quia Multum Amavit (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man?Wherefore now ...
Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt ...
Mater Triumphalis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
Blessed Among Women –To The Signora Cairoli (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
Faustine (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
The Leper (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
On The Downs (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
Super Flumina Babylonis (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
Ilicet (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
THERE is an end of joy and sorrow;Peace all day long, all night, all morrow, But never a time ...
A Litany (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
FIRST ANTIPHONE.ALL the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee;One night shall be as seven ...
Tenebrae (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours,When the waters of time ...
A Lamentation (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I.WHO hath known the ways of time Or trodden behind his feet? There is no such ...