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 ...
Bird of the bitter bright grey golden mornScarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,First of us all and sweetest ...
Heralds of a happier day rousing wonder and dismay -Powerful squadrons rush in close array.In the morning sad and gray, ...
Beside a cottage-door, Sang Ella at her wheel;Ruthven rode o'er the moor, Down at her feet to kneel:A spotted palfrey gay Came ambling ...
I.The sun is warm, the sky is clear,The waves are dancing fast and bright,Blue isles and snowy mountains wearThe purple ...
READING how Marco Polo cameBy bridle-path to Kanbalu,Forgotten fibres wake to flame,And smoke old memories anew . . . .For ...
A weed-grown slope, whereon the rain Has washed the brown rocks bare, Leads tangled from a lonely lane Down to a creek's broad ...
WHICH ESCAPED FROM THE WRITER'S HAND, AND FAL-LING DOWN THE AREA OF A HOUSE, COULD NOTBE FOUND.MISTAKEN Bird, ah whither ...
When the world was first createdBy th' all-wise Eternal One,Asked he none for help or counsel,--Simply spake, and it was ...
Two that wrecked each other's hope,Parting coldly in their prime,Met upon the downward slope,Taught by tears, and calmed by time,Under ...
A child stood by the rising seaOn a dismal winter's morning,And dream'd what coming life might be,And sigh'd o'er the ...
As I wandered homeBy Hedworth CombeI heard a lone horse whinney,And saw on the hillStanding statue-stillAt the top of the ...
Light as a flake of foam upon the wind,Keel-upward from the deep emerged a shell,Shaped like the moon ere half ...
Father of lights! what sunny seed,What glance of day hast Thou confinedInto this bird? To all the breedThis busy ray ...
O, the red rose may be fair,And the lily statelier;But my shamrock, one in three,Takes the very heart of me!Many ...
Glimmers gray the leafless thicketClose beside my garden gate,Where, so light, from post to picketHops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;Who, with ...
The linnet had flown from its cage away,And flitted and sang in the light of day--Had flown from the lady ...
Moss-grown, and venerable it stands, From the way-side dust and noise aloof,And the great elms stretch their sheltering hands To bless its ...
More beatiful than the remarkable moon and her noble light,More beautiful than the stars, the famous medals of the night,More ...
By yonder fountain in the grove,Where the green grass e'en from aboveDown to the water's pebbly bedIts verdant covering hath ...
raise me more love. raise memy prettiest fits of madnessO' dagger's journey. in my fleshand knife's plunge.sink me further my ...
You ask why I am sad to-day, I have no cares, no griefs, you say? Ah, yes, 't is true, I have ...
IT was a wellOf whitest marble, white as from the quarry;And richly wrought with many a high relief,Greek sculpture--in some ...
The lily-bells ring underground, Their music small I hearWhen globes of dew that shine pearl round Hang in the cowslip's earAnd all ...
There's something in a noble boy,a brave, free-hearted, careless one,with his unchecked, unbidden joy,his dread of books and love of ...
IN the heyday of my years, when I thought the world was young,And believed that I was old-at the very ...
LET ev'ry man, his head and grateful eyes,To God, our gen'rous caterer, lift up,And beg of him with supplicating cries,To ...
It was a decree of Herod,Caused mothers to run wild;He sent soldiers from his palaceTo kill each young male child.To ...
When science from creation's faceEnchantment's veil withdraws,What lovely visions yield their placeTo cold material laws!Campbell.FANCY, thou art a waking dream,For ...
Procne, Philomela, and Itylus,Your names are liquid, your improbable taleIs recited in the classic numbers of the nightingale.Ah, but our ...
ARMEDA.WHY dost thou Sylvia pensive sit?Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow?Oft hast thou cheer'd us by thy wit,Why thus ...
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