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Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Day

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

Day was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive     With murmuring joy of bees and birds aswarm,     When in the skies of song yet flushed and warm     With music where all passion seems to strive     For utterance, all things bright and fierce to drive     Struggling along the splendour of the storm,     Day for an hour put off his fiery form,     And golden murmurs from a golden hive     Across the strong bright summer wind were heard,     And laughter soft as smiles from girls at play     And loud from lips of boys brow-bound with May.     Our mightiest age let fall its gentlest word,     When Song, in semblance of a sweet small bird,     Lit fluttering on the light swift hand of Day.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet known for metrical innovation and bold themes. His "Atalanta in Calydon" and "Poems and Ballads" challenged Victorian conventions with their musical intensity and controversial subject matter.

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