Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Yet again another, ere his crowning year,     Gone from friends that here may look for him no more.     Never now for him shall hope set wide th"

"I hid my heart in a nest of roses,     Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;     In a softer bed then the soft white snow's is,     Under the ros"

"1     O son of man, but of what man who knows?     That broughtest healing on thy leathern wings     To priests, and under them didst gather king"

"Take hands and part with laughter;     Touch lips and part with tears;     Once more and no more after,     Whatever comes with years.     We"

"Sea and land are fairer now, nor aught is all the same,     Since a mightier hand than Times hath woven their votive wreath.     Rocks as sword"

"Push hard across the sand,     For the salt wind gathers breath;     Shoulder and wrist and hand,     Push hard as the push of death.     The"

"(To a tune of Blakes) I.     Baby, baby bright,     Sleep can steal from sight     Little of your light:     Soft as fire in dew,     Still"

"I.     A little soul scarce fledged for earth     Takes wing with heaven again for goal     Even while we hailed as fresh from birth     A little"

"Ave Faustina Imperatrix, morituri te salutant.     Lean back, and get some minutes peace;     Let your head lean     Back to the shoulder with i"

"I.     Since in Athens God stood plain for adoration,     Since the sun beheld his likeness reared in stone,     Since the bronze or gold of human"

"Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one     Spake, might the word be said that might speak Thee.     Streams, winds, woods, flowers, fields,"

"In a vision Liberty stood     By the childless charm-stricken bed     Where, barren of glory and good,     Knowing nought if she would not or w"

"To: VICTOR HUGO     (Greek: ailenon ailenon eipe, to d' eu nikato) STROPHE 1     With songs and crying and sounds of acclamations,     Lo"

"Imitated from Thophile Gautier     We are in loves land to-day;     Where shall we go?     Love, shall we start or stay,     Or sail or row?"

"Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,     Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth     Upon the sides of mirth,     Cover thy lips"

"If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face,     O thou whose soul was full of devil's faith,     If in thy flesh the worm's bite slackeneth"

"The four boards of the coffin lid     Heard all the dead man did.     The first curse was in his mouth,     Made of graves mould and deadly d"

"IN MEMORY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE     Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel,     Brother, on this that was the veil of thee?     Or quiet"

"To Isabel Swinburne.     The far green westward heavens are bland,     The far green Wiltshire downs are clear     As these deep meadows hard"

"Child of two strong nations, heir     Born of high-souled hope that smiled,     Seeing for each brought forth a fair     Child,     By thy gr"

"Whatever a man of the sons of men     Shall say to his heart of the lords above,     They have shown man verily, once and again,     Marvellous"

"In the fair days when God     By man as godlike trod,     And each alike was Greek, alike was free,     Gods lightning spared, they said,"

"Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses,     Is good, or was held so, for ladies:    but nought     In a song can be good if the t"

"New Year, be good to England. Bid her name     Shine sunlike as of old on all the sea:     Make strong her soul: set all her spirit free:     B"

"O daughter of pride, wasted with misery,     With all the glory that thy shame put on     Stripped off thy shame, O daughter of Babylon,     Ye"

"I     The clearest eyes in all the world they read     With sense more keen and spirit of sight more true     Than burns and thrills in sunrise, wh"

"Three damsels in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair; She spake a word of God's mother As the combs went in her hair. Mary that is of"

"When the game began between them for a jest,     He played king and she played queen to match the best;     Laughter soft as tears, and tears th"

"Beloved above all nations, land adored,     Sovereign in spirit and charm, by song and sword,     Sovereign whose life is love, whose name is li"

"Love dark as death and fierce as fire on wing     Sustains in sin the soul that feels it cling     Like flame whose tongues are serpents: hope a"

"About the middle music of the spring     Came from the castled shore of Irelands king     A fair ship stoutly sailing, eastward bound     And"

"Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover     Wails that sorrow should always keep     Watch, nor see in the gloom above her     Sleep,"

"Be glad in heaven above all souls insphered,     Most royal and most loyal born of men,     Shakespeare, of all on earth beloved or feared"

"My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes     Blind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighs     Divide my flesh and spirit with soft sound,"

"Strong as death, and cruel as the grave,     Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath,     Known of death's dread self, whom none outb"

"There were twa brethren fell on strife;     Sweet fruits are sair to gather:     The tane has reft his brother of life;     And the wind wears"

"I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers,     Full of sweet trees and colour of glad grass,     In midst whereof there was     A lady clot"

"The sea of the years that endure not     Whose tide shall endure till we die     And know what the seasons assure not,     If death be or life"

"The sun was heavy; no more shade at all     Than you might cover with a hollow cup     There was in the south chamber; wall by wall,     Slowly"

"East and north a waste of waters, south and west     Lonelier lands than dreams in sleep would feign to be,     When the soul goes forth on trav"

"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"

"Dedication     To My Mother     Love that holds life and death in fee,     Deep as the clear unsounded sea     And sweet as life or death ca"

"April made me: winter laid me here away asleep.     Bright as Maytime was my daytime; night is soft and deep:     Though the morrow bring forth"

"Out of the night arose the second day,     And saw the ships bows break the shoreward spray.     As the suns boat of gold and fire began"

"Return, they cry, ere yet your day     Set, and the sky grow stern:     Return, strayed souls, while yet ye may     Return.     But heavens be"

"Lying asleep between the strokes of night     I saw my love lean over my sad bed,     Pale as the duskiest lilys leaf or head,     Smooth-skin"

"I     Soft, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers     That bask in heavenly heat     When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers,     Soft, small,"

"Not for less love, all glorious France, to thee,     Sweet enemy called in days long since at end.     Now found and hailed of England sweeter"

"Ye too, dim watchfires of some darkling hour,     Whose fame forlorn time saves not nor proclaims     For ever, but forgetfulness defames     A"

"I     Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun     Clasp and lighten in climes that brighten with day when day that"

"I.     Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend,     Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth     Wane, and no lips rebuke"

"Patience, long sick to death, is dead. Too long     Have sloth and doubt and treason bidden us be     What Cromwell's England was not, when the"

"Dead love, by treason slain, lies stark,     White as a dead stark-stricken dove:     None that pass by him pause to mark     Dead love."

"I.     The love that comes and goes like wind or fire     Hath words and wings wherewith to speak and flee.     But love more deep than passion's"

"I     Not from without us, only from within,     Comes or can ever come upon us light     Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight.     No truth"

"Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,     Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence only the sun wa"

"A life more bright than the sun's face, bowed     Through stress of season and coil of cloud,     Sets: and the sorrow that casts out fear"

"I     Was it light that spake from the darkness, or music that shone from the word,     When the night was enkindled with sound of the sun or the fi"

"(AFTER THE PROCLAMATION IN ROME OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) Vicisti, Galile.     I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an en"

"The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves     Lie strewn on the graveyard grass, and all their light     And colour and fragrance leave o"