Before Sunset (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above, On earth ere twilight reigns: Ere fear may feel the chill thereof, Love's twilight ...
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above, On earth ere twilight reigns: Ere fear may feel the chill thereof, Love's twilight ...
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Light and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright ...
Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure, Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure Soul ...
Between the green bud and the red Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed From eyes and tresses flowers ...
Chief in thy generation born of men, Whom English praise acclaimed as English-born, With eyes that matched the worldwide eyes ...
Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses, Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but nought In a song ...
Strong as death, and cruel as the grave, Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath, Known of death's dread self, ...
I. Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and ...
One, who is not, we see; but one, whom we see not, is; Surely this is not that; but that ...
Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing Little children live and die, possest Still of grace that keeps them ...
The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors, Storm-stained ravines, and crags that lawns inlay, Soothes as with love ...
Back to the flower-town, side by side, The bright months bring, New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, Freedom and spring. ...
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear; Keep silence now, ...
One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken, Now hath passed from sense of sun and rain: Wind from off ...
Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice Since his birth whose ...
What shall be done for sorrow With love whose race is run? Where help is none to borrow, What shall ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
from Atalanta in Calydon When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or ...
I.--VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm ...
Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire, Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star! Soul nearest ours of ...
ALL the bells of heaven may ring, All the birds of heaven may sing, All the wells on earth may ...
The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow None may measure, as none can say How the heart in her ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood, Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs ...
WAS it light that spake from the darkness, or music that shone from the word, When the night was enkindled ...
eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula. ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen, ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai ...
Is thine hour come to wake, O slumbering Night? Hath not the Dawn a message in thine ear? Though thou ...
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