Algernon Charles Swinburne

"England, elect of time,     By freedom sealed sublime,     And constant as the sun that saw thy dawn     Outshine upon the sea     His own in"

"I.     Lord of light, whose shine no hands destroy,     God of song, whose hymn no tongue refuses,     Now, though spring far hence be cold and coy"

"A wild moon riding high from cloud to cloud,     That sees and sees not, glimmering far beneath,     Hells children revel along the shuddering"

"PART I     It is an hour before the hour of dawn.     Set in mine hand my staff and leave me here     Outside the hollow house that blind men fear"

"There is an end of joy and sorrow;     Peace all day long, all night, all morrow,     But never a time to laugh or weep.     The end is come of"

"TO MY BEST FRIEND     THEODORE WATTS     I DEDICATE IN THIS BOOK     THE BEST I HAVE TO GIVE HIM     Spring speaks again, and all our wood"

"If the wind and the sunlight of April and August had mingled the past and hereafter     In a single adorable season whose life were a rapture of"

"If you loved me ever so little,     I could bear the bonds that gall,     I could dream the bonds were brittle;     You do not love me at all."

"Si quis piorum Manibus locus. I.     Straight from the suns grave in the deep clear west     A sweet strong wind blows, glad of life: and"

"Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta.     She stood before her traitors bound and bare,     Clothed with her wounds and with her naked shame"

"But now life's face beholden     Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow     With hope of gifts withholden     But now.     From time's full-flow"

"Lors dit en plourant; Hlas trop malheureux homme et mauldict pescheur, oncques ne verrai-je clmence et misricorde de Dieu. Ores men irai-je d"

"The year lies fallen and faded     On cliffs by clouds invaded,     With tongues of storms upbraided,     With wrath of waves bedinned;     An"

"I     At The Piano I     Love me and leave me; what love bids retrieve me? can June's fist grasp May?     Leave me and love me; hopes eyed o"

"Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,     Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,     Seems vainly to seek for a st"

"When Shakespeare soared from life to death, above     All praise, all adoration, save of love,     As here on earth above all men he stood"

"But that same night in Cornwall oversea     Couched at Queen Iseults hand, against her knee,     With keen kind eyes that read her whole heart"

"Thunder: the flesh quails, and the soul bows down.     Night: east, west, south, and northward, very night     Star upon struggling star strives"

"Night or light is it now, wherein     Sleeps, shut out from the wild world's din,     Wakes, alive with a life more clear,     One who found no"

"I.     At threescore years and five aroused anew     To rule in India, forth a soldier went     On whose bright-fronted youth fierce war had spent"

"Again the same strange might of eyes, that saw     In heaven and earth nought fairer, overcame     My sight with rapture of reiterate awe,"

"I     Three in one, but one in three,     God, who girt her with the sea,     Bade our Commonweal to be:     Nought, if now not one.     Though f"

"JANUARY     Hail, January, that bearest here     On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year     That weeps and trembles to be born.     Hail, maid"

"Italia, mother of the souls of men,     Mother divine,     Of all that served thee best with sword or pen,     All sons of thine,     Thou kno"

"The sea that is life everlasting     And death everlasting as life     Abides not a pilot's forecasting,     Foretells not of peace or of strif"

"Ferdinand II entered Malebolge May 22nd, 1859.     Go down to hell. This end is good to see;     The breath is lightened and the sense at ease"

"Baby-bird, baby-bird,     Ne'er a song on earth     May be heard, may be heard,     Rich as yours in mirth.     All your flickering fingers,"

"Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow,     How can thine heart be full of the spring?     A thousand summers are over and dead.     What hast th"

"Dante, sole standing on the heavenward height,     Beheld and heard one saying, "Behold me well:     I am, I am Beatrice." Heaven and hell"

"Fly, white butterflies, out to sea,     Frail pale wings for the winds to try,     Small white wings that we scarce can see     Fly.     Here"

"eipate toi basilei, xamai pese daidalos aula.     ouketi PHoibos exei kaluban, ou mantida daphnen,     ou pagan laleousan . apesbeto kai lalon u"

"There's mony a man loves land and life,     Loves life and land and fee;     And mony a man loves fair women,     But never a man loves me, my"

"Steadfast as sorrow, fiery sad, and sweet     With underthoughts of love and faith, more strong     Than doubt and hate and all ill thoughts whi"

"Greene, garlanded with February's few flowers     Ere March came in with Marlowe's rapturous rage;     Peele, from whose hand the sweet white lo"

"1     O Night and death, to whom we grudged him then,     When in man's sight he stood not yet undone,     Your king, your priest, your saviour, a"

"Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.     Let us go hence together without fear;     Keep silence now, for singing-time is over,     An"

"I     Stately, kindly, lordly friend,     Condescend     Here to sit by me, and turn     Glorious eyes that smile and burn,     Golden eyes, love"

"I.     Three men lived yet when this dead man was young     Whose names and words endure for ever one:     Whose eyes grew dim with straining towa"

"I NOW DEDICATE, WITH EQUAL AFFECTION, REVERENCE, AND REGRET, A POEM     INSCRIBED TO HIM WHILE YET ALIVE IN WORDS WHICH ARE NOW RETAINED     BEC"

"The sea is awake, and the sound of the song of the joy of her waking is rolled     From afar to the star that recedes, from anear to the wastes o"

"Out of the dark pure twilight, where the stream     Flows glimmering, streaked by many a birdlike bark     That skims the gloom whence towers an"

"CELEBRATED UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF VICTOR HUGO.     Scarce two hundred years are gone, and the world is past away     As a noise of brawling wi"

"There were four apples on the bough,     Half gold half red, that one might know     The blood was ripe inside the core;     The colour of the"

"O son of man, by lying tongues adored,     By slaughterous hands of slaves with feet red-shod     In carnage deep as ever Christian trod     Pr"

"La plus douce des voix qui vibraient sous le ciel     Se tait: les rossignols ails pleurent le frre     Qui s'envole au-dessus de l'pre et so"

"I. Winter in Northumberland     Outside the garden     The wet skies harden;     The gates are barred on     The summer side:     "Shut out"

"Spring sleeps and stirs and trembles with desire     Pure as a babe's that nestles toward the breast.     The world, as yet an all unstricken ly"

"Put in the sickles and reap;     For the morning of harvest is red,     And the long large ranks of the corn     Coloured and clothed as the mo"

"A fire of fierce and laughing light     That clove the shuddering heart of night     Leapt earthward, and the thunder's might     That pants an"

"If we dream that desire of the distance above us     Should be fettered by fear of the shadows that seem,     If we wake, to be nought, but to h"

"Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect     Slaves clear the ways of service spiritual,     Sweep clean the stalled soul's serviceable st"

"Take, O star of all our seas, from not an alien hand,     Homage paid of song bowed down before thy glory's face,     Thou the living light of a"

"From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine,     Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flow"

"Said a poet to a woodlouse, "Thou art certainly my brother;     I discern in thee the markings of the fingers of the Whole;     And I recognize,"

"The sundawn fills the land     Full as a feaster's hand     Fills full with bloom of bland     Bright wine his cup;     Flows full to flood th"

"Clouds here and there arisen an hour past noon     Chequered our English heaven with lengthening bars     And shadow and sound of wheel-winged t"

"The sea gives her shells to the shingle,     The earth gives her streams to the sea;     They are many, but my gift is single,     My verses, t"

"When the might of the summer     Is most on the sea;     When the days overcome her     With joy but to be,     With rapture of royal enchantm"

"Sweet mother, in a minutes span     Death parts thee and my love of thee;     Sweet love, that yet art living man,     Come back, true love, t"

"I.     Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken     Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,     Pass, and the flames of"