Algernon Charles Swinburne

"I I     England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea,     Mother more beloved than all who bear not all their children fre"

"Faith is the spirit that makes man's body and blood     Sacred, to crown when life and death have ceased     His heavenward head for high fame's"

"crasez l'infme.     - Voltaire     Les prtres ont raison de l'appeler Lucifer.     - Victor Hugo     Voltaire, our England's lover, man d"

"Sons born of many a loyal Muse to Ben,     All true-begotten, warm with wine or ale,     Bright from the broad light of his presence, hail!"

"Mal soluta navis exit alite.     Hor.     Rigged with curses dark.     Milton. I.     Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold,"

"From the depths of the waters that lighten and darken     With change everlasting of life and of death,     Where hardly by noon if the lulled e"

"Looking on a page where stood     Graven of old on old-world wood     Death, and by the graves edge grim,     Pale, the young man facing him,"

"Last high star of the years whose thunder     Still mens listening remembrance hears,     Last light left of our fathers years,     Watched w"

"Child, when they say that others     Have been or are like you,     Babes fit to be your brothers,     Sweet human drops of dew,     Bright fr"

"A Lyrical Idyl THALASSIUS     Pan! PAN     O sea-stray, seed of Apollo,     What word wouldst thou have with me?     My ways thou wast fai"

"I     Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star     Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west,     Fulfilled of watery resonance and rest,"

"Three damsels in the queens chamber,     The queens mouth was most fair;     She spake a word of Gods mother     As the combs went in her ha"

"FIRST ANTIPHONE.     All the bright lights of heaven     I will make dark over thee;     One night shall be as seven     That its skirts may cover"

"Men, born of the land that for ages     Has been honoured where freedom was dear,     Till your labour wax fat on its wages     You shall never"

"On the refusal by the French Senate of the plenary amnesty demanded by Victor Hugo, in his speech of July 3rd, for the surviving exiles of the Com"

"Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the nations full with night:     Hope and fear whose eyes yearn eastward have but fire and sword in s"

"Storm, strong with all the bitter heart of hate,     Smote England, now nineteen dark years ago,     As when the tide's full wrath in seaward fl"

"Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand,     Here ivory smooth, here cloven and ridged with flow     Of channelled waters soft as rain or snow,"

"From the french of the Vidame de Chartres. 12--?     When the fields catch flower     And the underwood is green,     And from bower unto bower"

"Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever,     Here and there for awhile would borrow     Rest, if rest might haply deliver     Sorrow."

"The golden bells of fairyland, that ring     Perpetual chime for childhood's flower-sweet spring,     Sang soft memorial music in his ear     W"

"Between our eastward and our westward sea     The narrowing strand     Clasps close the noblest shore fame holds in fee     Even here where Eng"

"I     Days dawn on us that make amends for many     Sometimes,     When heaven and earth seem sweeter even than any     Man's rhymes.     Light h"

"Our mother, which wast twice, as history saith,     Found first among the nations: once, when she     Who bore thine ensign saw the God in thee"

"The wave that breaks against a forward stroke     Beats not the swimmer back, but thrills him through     With joyous trust to win his way anew"

"Baby, see the flowers!     - Baby sees     Fairer things than these,     Fairer though they be than dreams of ours.     Baby, hear the birds!"

"Three weeks since there was no such rose in being;     Now may eyes made dim with deep delight     See how fair it is, laugh with love, and seei"

"Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder     With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds whence terror is shed     As"

"Mad March, with the wind in his wings wide-spread,     Leaps from heaven, and the deep dawn's arch     Hails re-risen again from the dead     M"

"Light, as when dawn takes wing and smites the sea,     Smote England when his day bade Marlowe be.     No fire so keen had thrilled the clouds o"

"I.     Friend of the dead, and friend of all my days     Even since they cast off boyhood, I salute     The song saluting friends whose songs are"

"I.     Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure,     Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense     Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure"

"This fell when Christmas lights were done,     Red rose leaves will never make wine;     But before the Easter lights begun;     The ways are s"

"Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,     Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer     As the storm shifts of the tempestu"

"A new year gleams on us, tearful     And troubled and smiling dim     As the smile on a lip still fearful,     As glances of eyes that swim:"

"I     Life, sublime and serene when time had power upon it and ruled its breath,     Changed it, bade it be glad or sad, and hear what change in the"

"Bill, I feel far from quite right if not further: already the pill     Seems, if I may say so, to bubble inside me. A poet's heart, Bill,     Is"

"To Victor Hugo     Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries,     And hardly for the storm and ruin shed     Can even thine eyes be certa"

"Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still     And glad of silence:    down the wood sweeps clear     To the utmost verge where fed with many"

"The wind that brings us from the springtide south     Strange music as from love's or life's own mouth     Blew hither, when the blast of battle"

"CHORUS     If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee,     We thy latter sons, the men thine after-birth,     We the children of th"

"STR. 1     I laid my laurel-leaf     At the white feet of grief,     Seeing how with covered face and plumeless wings,     With unreverted head"

"Ave Caesar Imperator, moriturum te saluto. 1     O Death, a little more, and then the worm;     A little longer, O Death, a little yet,"

"Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing     Light and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,     How the time should come f"

"The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head,     Sick with the helpless hate and shame and awe,     Till food have choked the glutted hell-bir"

"An age too great for thought of ours to scan,     A wave upon the sleepless sea of time     That sinks and sleeps for ever, ere the chime     P"

"Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother,     Night and day, on all things that draw breath,     Reign, while time keeps friends with one a"

"Sea, that art ours as we are thine, whose name     Is one with England's even as light with flame,     Dost thou as we, thy chosen of all men, k"

"Because there is but one truth;     Because there is but one banner;     Because there is but one light;     Because we have with us our youth"

"The heart of the rulers is sick, and the high-priest covers his head:     For this is the song of the quick that is heard in the ears of the dead"