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Algernon Charles Swinburne

April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Baby's Death A little soul scarce fledged for earth 771919
2: A Baby's Epitaph April made me: winter laid me here away asleep. 91447
3: A Ballad at Parting Sea to sea that clasps and fosters England, uttering ever-more 351717
4: A Ballad Of Appeal Song wakes with every wakening year 341706
5: A Ballad of Bath Like a queen enchanted who may not laugh or weep, 351424
6: A Ballad of Burdens The burden of fair women. Vain delight, 761376
7: A Ballad of Death Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, 1141432
8: A Ballad of Dreamland I hid my heart in a nest of roses, 281432
9: A Ballad of Life I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers, 841447
10: A Ballad Of Sark High beyond the granite portal arched across 351646
11: A Cameo There was a graven image of Desire 14959
12: A Channel Crossing Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, 78825
13: A Channel Passage Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, 1855 78902
14: A Child’s Battles Praise of the knights of old 150966
15: A Child’s Future What will it please you, my darling, hereafter to be? 21977
16: A Child’s Laughter All the bells of heaven may ring, 30967
17: A Child’s Pity No sweeter thing than children’s ways and wiles, 36999
18: A Child’s Thanks How low soe’er men rank us, 48961
19: A Choice Faith is the spirit that makes man's body and blood 14772
20: A Christmas Carol 1 Three damsels in the queen’s chamber, 72734
21: A Clasp of Hands Soft, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers 331052
22: A Counsel O strong Republic of the nobler years 1869 14737
23: A Dark Month A month without sight of the sun 876768
24: A Dead Friend Gone, O gentle heart and true, 771017
25: A Dead King Go down to hell. This end is good to see; 14754
26: A Death on Easter Day - Sonnets The strong spring sun rejoicingly may rise, 141023
27: A Dialogue Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: 33985
28: A Dirge A bell tolls on in my heart 241610
29: A Double Ballad Of August All Afric, winged with death and fire, 1884 481038
30: A Flower-piece by Fantin Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought, 11696
31: A Forsaken Garden In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, 80741
32: A Jacobite's Exile The weary day rins down and dies, 84663
33: A Jacobite's Farewell There's nae mair lands to tyne, my dear, 16682
34: A Lamentation Who hath known the ways of time 1261067
35: A Landscape by Courbet Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still 11733
36: A Last Look - Sonnets Sick of self-love, Malvolio, like an owl 14984
37: A Leave-Taking Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. 42690
38: A Litany All the bright lights of heaven 1281080
39: A Lyke-wake Song Fair of face, full of pride, 16670
40: A Marching Song We mix from many lands, We march for very far; 2251021
41: A Match If love were what the rose is, 48704
42: A Midsummer Holiday:- I. The Seaboard The sea is at ebb, and the sound of her utmost word 351179
43: A Midsummer Holiday:- II. A Haven East and north a waste of waters, south and west 281075
44: A Midsummer Holiday:- III. On a Country Road Along these low pleached lanes, on such a day, 351182
45: A Midsummer Holiday:- IV. The Mill Garden Stately stand the sunflowers, glowing down the garden-side, 351119
46: A Midsummer Holiday:- IX. On The Verge Here begins the sea that ends not till the world’s end. Where we stand, 351038
47: A Midsummer Holiday:- V. A Sea-Mark Rains have left the sea-banks ill to climb: 281062
48: A Midsummer Holiday:- VI. The Cliffside Path Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down 351020
49: A Midsummer Holiday:- VII. In The Water The sea is awake, and the sound of the song of the joy of her waking is rolled 351085
50: A Midsummer Holiday:- VIII. The Sunbows Spray of song that springs in April, light of love that laughs through May, 281071
51: A Moss-Rose If the rose of all flowers be the rarest 16719
52: A New Century An age too great for thought of ours to scan, 14772
53: A New Year's Eve The stars are strong in the deeps of the lustrous night, 40713
54: A New Year’s Message Out of the dawning heavens that hear 1870 51997
55: A New-Year Ode Twice twelve times have the springs of years refilled 400993
56: A Night-piece by Millet Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking 11710
57: A Ninth Birthday Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing 1883 33929
58: A Nympholept Summer, and noon, and a splendour of silence, felt, 273687
59: A Parting Song These winds and suns of spring 1001036
60: A Reiver's Neck-Verse Some die singing, and some die swinging, 20728
61: A Reminiscence The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves 14870
62: A Rhyme Babe, if rhyme be none For that sweet small word 32766
63: A Roundel From the French of Villon Death, I would plead against thy wrong, 12621
64: A Roundel of Rabelais Theleme is afar on the waters, adrift and afar, 111040
65: A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning The clearest eyes in all the world they read 1889 98984
66: A Singing Lesson Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses, 11893
67: A Solitude Sea beyond sea, sand after sweep of sand, 14969
68: A Song in Time of Order. 1852 Push hard across the sand, 56725
69: A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860 The heart of the rulers is sick, and the high-priest covers his head: 46702
70: A Song Of Italy I saw the double-featured statue stand 1867 848662
71: A Study From Memory - Sonnets If that be yet a living soul which here 14687
72: A Swimmer's Dream Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, 1889 122674
73: A Watch in the Night Watchman, what of the night? Storm and thunder and rain, 1521031
74: A Word for the Country Men, born of the land that for ages 160995
75: A Word for the Nation A word across the water Against our ears is borne, 108947
76: A Word for the Navy Queen born of the sea, that hast borne her 96758
77: A Word From the Psalmist Take heed, ye unwise among the people: 108989
78: A Word with the Wind Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warning, 64887
79: A Year After If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face, 14710
80: A Year's Carols Hail, January, that bearest here 96690
81: A Year’s Burden Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear, 1870 84847
82: Adieux à Marie Stuart Queen, for whose house my fathers fought, 112948
83: After A Reading For the seven times seventh time love would renew the delight without end or alloy 30995
84: After Death The four boards of the coffin lid 501100
85: After Looking into Carlyles Reminiscences - Sonnets Three men lived yet when this dead man was young 281052
86: After Nine Years The shadows fallen of years are nine 48658
87: After Sunset - Sonnets Straight from the sun’s grave in the deep clear west 42702
88: After the Verdict France, cloven in twain by fire of hell and hate, 1899 14662
89: Aholibah In the beginning God made thee 150678
90: An Appeal Art thou indeed among these, 1867 84915
91: An Autumn Vision Is it Midsummer here in the heavens that illumine October on earth? 216700
92: An Evening at Vichy Written on the news of the death of Lord Leighton 1896 64681
93: An Interlude In the greenest growth of the Maytime, 56667
94: An Old Saying Many waters cannot quench love, 16864
95: Anactoria My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes 304981
96: Anima Anceps Till death have broken Sweet life’s love-token, 48698
97: Aperotos Eros Strong as death, and cruel as the grave, 11754
98: Apologia If wrath embitter the sweet mouth of song, 14703
99: Apostasy Truths change with time, and terms with truth. To-day 56739
100: April When the fields catch flower 63754
101: Armand Barbés Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, 28974
102: Astrophel A star in the silence that follows 118712
103: Astræa Victrix England, elect of time, By freedom sealed sublime, 96691
104: At a Dog's Grave Good night, we say, when comes the time to win 331058
105: At Eleusis Men of Eleusis, ye that with long staves 223679
106: At Sea Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing 11925
107: Athens: An Ode. Ere from under earth again like fire the violet kindle, 1881 300738
108: Au Tombeau de Banville La plus douce des voix qui vibraient sous le ciel 14915
109: August There were four apples on the bough, 60740
110: Autumn and Winter Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon 441044
111: Autumn In Cornwall The year lies fallen and faded 48731
112: Ave atque Vale Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, 198706
113: Baby-Bird Baby-bird, baby-bird, Ne'er a song on earth 32695
114: Babyhood A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be 441547
115: Barking Hall: A Year After Still the sovereign trees Make the sundawn's breeze 54765
116: Before a Crucifix Here, down between the dusty trees, 198875
117: Before Dawn Sweet life, if life were stronger, 80765
118: Before Parting A month or twain to live on honeycomb 36703
119: Before Sunset Love's twilight wanes in heaven above, 11898
120: Before the Mirror White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; 63679
121: Benediction Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing 11913
122: Birth and Death Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, 11937
123: Birthday Ode Love and praise, and a length of days whose shadow cast upon time is light, 1891 27924
124: Birthday Ode for the Anniversary Festival of Victor Hugo Spring, born in heaven ere many a springtime flown, 1880 519901
125: Bismarck at Canossa - Sonnets Not all disgraced, in that Italian town, 1881 14897
126: Blessed Among Women Blessed was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair, 168894
127: Burns: an Ode A fire of fierce and laughing light 114709
128: By the North Sea Sea, wind, and sun, with light and sound and breath 539897
129: By the Wayside Summer's face was rosiest, skies and woods were mellow, 40647
130: By Twilight If we dream that desire of the distance above us 11642
131: Caliban on Ariel His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract" 15681
132: Carnot Death, winged with fire of hate from deathless hell 1894 14681
133: Celaeno The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head, 14745
134: Change But now life's face beholden 11955
135: Choriambics Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was made lovely, we thought, with love? 22625
136: Christmas Antiphones Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, 300885
137: Clear The Way! Clear the way, my lords and lackeys! you have had your day. 21879
138: Cleopatra Her beauty might outface the jealous hours, 108856
139: Comparisons Child, when they say that others 42906
140: Concord Reconciled by death's mild hand, that giving 11651
141: Cor Cordium O heart of hearts, the chalice of love’s fire, 14902
142: Cradle Songs Baby, baby bright, Sleep can steal from sight 84845
143: Cromwell's Statue1 What needs our Cromwell stone or bronze to say 1895 32619
144: Dead Love Dead love, by treason slain, lies stark, 11692
145: Death and Birth Death and birth should dwell not near together: 11841
146: Dedication - A Channel Passage and Other Poems The sea that is life everlasting 104841
147: Dedication - From "A Century of Roundels" Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong 11864
148: Dedication - ristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems Spring speaks again, and all our woods are stirred, 28750
149: Dedication From "Astrophel and Other Poems" The sea of the years that endure not 1893 104666
150: Dedication From "Poems and Ballads" The years are many, the changes more, 28861
151: Dedication to Alice Swinburne The love that comes and goes like wind or fire 1887 72605
152: Dedication to Edward John Trelawny A sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting, 15862
153: Dedication to Joseph Mazzini Take, since you bade it should bear, 42867
154: Dedication to Joseph Mazzini Take, since you bade it should bear, 42875
155: Delphic Hymn to Apollo Thee, the son of God most high, 36628
156: Dickens - Sonnets Chief in thy generation born of men 14825
157: Discord Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled 11656
158: Dolores Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel 440634
159: Dysthanatos - Sonnets By no dry death another king goes down 1881 14813
160: East to West Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one, 15708
161: Eight Years Old Sun, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears, 1882 64835
162: Elegy Auvergne, Auvergne, O wild and woful land, 140850
163: England: an Ode Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun 63579
164: Envoi Fly, white butterflies, out to sea, 11646
165: Epicede As a vesture shalt thou change them, said the prophet, 56770
166: Epilogue to Songs Before Sunrise Between the wave-ridge and the strand 333796
167: Erechtheus Mother of life and death and all men's days, 1760588
168: Eros Eros, from rest in isles far-famed, 33783
169: Erotion Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, 44649
170: Eton: an Ode Four hundred summers and fifty have shone on the meadows of Thames and died 27622
171: Etude Realiste A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink, 331439
172: Euonymos - Sonnets A year ago red wrath and keen despair 1882 14900
173: Eurydice Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries, 14841
174: Euthanatos Forth of our ways and woes, Forth of the winds and snows, 1881 63903
175: Evening on the Broads Over two shadowless waters, adrift as a pinnace in peril, 140662
176: Faustine Lean back, and get some minutes’ peace; 164667
177: Félise What shall be said between us here 295652
178: First and Last Upon the borderlands of being, 36967
179: First Footsteps A little way, more soft and sweet 11881
180: Flower-pieces I. Love Lies Bleeding Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover 11780
181: Flower-pieces II. Love in a Mist Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided, 11791
182: For a Portrait Of Felice Orsini Steadfast as sorrow, fiery sad, and sweet 14636
183: For Greece and Crete Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the nations full with night: 21663
184: Four Songs Of Four Seasons Outside the garden The wet skies harden; 398709
185: Fragoletta O love! what shall be said of thee? 70988
186: Genesis In the outer world that was before this earth, 64880
187: Grace Darling Take, O star of all our seas, from not an alien hand, 108693
188: Grand Chorus of Birds from Aristophanes Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness, and like to the leaves' generations, 37617
189: Had I Wist Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing 11993
190: Hawthorn Dyke All the golden air is full of balm and bloom 14634
191: Hawthorn Tide Dawn is alive in the world, and the darkness of heaven and of earth 108766
192: Heartsease Country The far green westward heavens are bland, 35973
193: Hendecasyllabics In the month of the long decline of roses 38633
194: Hermaphroditus Lift up thy lips, turn round, look back for love, 1863 56963
195: Herse When grace is given us ever to behold 76869
196: Hertha I am that which began; Out of me the years roll; 200924
197: Hesperia Out of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is, 92624
198: Hope and Fear - Sonnets Beneath the shadow of dawn’s aerial cope, 14631
199: Hymn of Man In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, 200875
200: Hymn to Proserpine I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; 110917
201: Ilicet There is an end of joy and sorrow; 144890
202: In a Garden Baby, see the flowers! - Baby sees 28663
203: In a Rosary Through the low grey archway children's feet that pass 40654
204: In Guernsey The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors, 94697
205: In Harbour Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us 22954
206: In Memory of Aurelio Saffi Beloved above all nations, land adored, 1896 16592
207: In Memory of Aurelio Saffi The wider world of men that is not ours 1890 96752
208: In Memory Of Henry A. Bright Yet again another, ere his crowning year, 14885
209: In Memory of John William Inchbold Farewell: how should not such as thou fare well, 120647
210: In Memory of Walter Savage Landor Back to the flower-town, side by side, 52670
211: In San Lorenzo Is thine hour come to wake, O slumbering Night? 14884
212: In Sark Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder 11586
213: In Sepulcretis It is not then enough that men who give 54921
214: In The Bay Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star 240572
215: In the Orchard Leave go my hands, let me catch breath and see; 50655
216: In Time of Mourning Return," we dare not as we fain 1885 11602
217: Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal Marlowe, the father of the sons of song 24692
218: Insularum Ocelle' Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, 11639
219: Intercession O Death, a little more, and then the worm; 1869 56663
220: Itylus Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, 601015
221: Jacobite Song Now who will speak, and lie not, 62711
222: John Jones's Wife Love me and leave me; what love bids retrieve me? can June's fist grasp May? 311869
223: Joyeuse Garde The sun was heavy; no more shade at all 74597
224: Last Words of a Seventh-Rate Poet Bill, I feel far from quite right if not further: already the pill 245812
225: Launch of The Livadia Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold, 1880 42944
226: Laus Veneris Asleep or waking is it? for her neck, 424644
227: Les Casquets From the depths of the waters that lighten and darken 208965
228: Les Noyades Whatever a man of the sons of men 80558
229: Life in Death He should have followed who goes forth before us, 1891 14781
230: Light: an Epicede Love will not weep because the seal is broken 40891
231: Lines on the Death of Edward John Trelawny Last high star of the years whose thunder 42890
232: Lines on the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini Italia, mother of the souls of men, 48894
233: Loch Torridon The dawn of night more fair than morning rose, 134660
234: Locusta Come close and see her and hearken. This is she. 14646
235: Louis Blanc - Three Sonnets To His Memory The stainless soul that smiled through glorious eyes; 42861
236: Love and Scorn Love, loyallest and lordliest born of things, 42923
237: Love and Sleep Lying asleep between the strokes of night 14643
238: Love at Sea We are in love’s land to-day; Where shall we go? 35655
239: Love In A Mist Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided, 11623
240: Love Lies Bleeding Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover 11653
241: Lucifer Voltaire, our England's lover, man divine 14987
242: Madonna Mia Under green apple-boughs That never a storm will rouse, 80948
243: March: an Ode Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight, 1887 49927
244: Marzo Pazzo Mad March, with the wind in his wings wide-spread, 11628
245: Mater Dolorosa Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside, 60909
246: Mater Triumphalis Mother of man’s time-travelling generations, 156882
247: May Janet Stand up, stand up, thou May Janet, 40948
248: Maytime In Midwinter A new year gleams on us, tearful 60963
249: Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott A life more bright than the sun's face, bowed 92832
250: Mentana: First Anniversary At the time when the stars are grey, 90903
251: Mentana: Second Anniversary By the dead body of Hope, the spotless lamb 1869 28651
252: Mentana: Third Anniversary Such prayers last year were put up for thy sake; 1870 28596
253: Messidor Put in the sickles and reap; 81890
254: Monotones Because there is but one truth; 42847
255: Mourning Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old 11743
256: Music: an Ode Was it light that spake from the darkness, or music that shone from the word, 15674
257: Neap-Tide Far off is the sea, and the land is afar: 65635
258: Nell Gwyn Sweet heart, that no taint of the throne or the stage 14601
259: Nephelidia From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, 839
260: New Year's Day New Year, be good to England. Bid her name 14640
261: Night Night, whom in shape so sweet thou here may'st see 10664
262: Nine Years Old Lord of light, whose shine no hands destroy, 1883 81913
263: Non Dolet It does not hurt. She looked along the knife 14823
264: Northumberland Between our eastward and our westward sea 50609
265: Not a Child Not a child: I call myself a boy,' 33994
266: Ode on the Insurrection in Candia I laid my laurel-leaf At the white feet of grief, 1867 246833
267: Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic With songs and crying and sounds of acclamations, 305662
268: Off Shore When the might of the summer 205614
269: Olive Who may praise her? Eyes where midnight shames the sun, 81658
270: On an Old Roundel Death, from thy rigour a voice appealed, 22628
271: On Lamb’s Specimens of Dramatic Poets - Sonnets If all the flowers of all the fields on earth 28879
272: On The Bicentenary of Corneille Scarce two hundred years are gone, and the world is past away 15807
273: On The Cliffs Between the moondawn and the sundown here 433831
274: On the Death of Colonel Benson Northumberland, so proud and sad to-day, 1901 14724
275: On the Death of Mrs. Lynn Linton Kind, wise, and true as truth's own heart, 52595
276: On the Death of Richard Burton Night or light is it now, wherein 56890
277: On The Death Of Richard Doyle A light of blameless laughter, fancy-bred, 14870
278: On the Death of Sir Henry Taylor Fourscore and five times has the gradual year 14638
279: On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle - Sonnets Two souls diverse out of our human sight 14841
280: On the Downs A faint sea without wind or sun; 156909
281: On the Russian Persecution of the Jews - Sonnets O son of man, by lying tongues adored, 14864
282: On the South Coast Hills and valleys where April rallies his radiant squadron of flowers and birds, 108682
283: One of Twain One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken, 22835
284: Pan and Thalassius O sea-stray, seed of Apollo, 163970
285: Papal Allocution What hast thou done? Hark, till thine ears wax hot, 14710
286: Past Days Dead and gone, the days we had together, 33838
287: Pelagius The sea shall praise him and the shores bear part 42864
288: Perinde ac Cadaver In a vision Liberty stood 105850
289: Peter's Pence From Perugia Iscariot, thou grey-grown beast of blood, 14683
290: Phædra Lay not thine hand upon me; let me go; 186615
291: Plus Intra Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure, 11842
292: Plus Ultra Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises 11912
293: Poems and Ballads - Dedication The sea gives her shells to the shingle, 1865 104579
294: Prelude to Songs Before Sunrise Between the green bud and the red 190851
295: Prologue to A Very Woman Swift music made of passion's changeful power, 28869
296: Prologue to Arden of Feversham Love dark as death and fierce as fire on wing 40834
297: Prologue to Doctor Faustus Light, as when dawn takes wing and smites the sea, 48821
298: Prologue to Old Fortunatus The golden bells of fairyland, that ring 34820
299: Prologue to The Broken Heart The mightiest choir of song that memory hears 40856
300: Prologue to The Duchess of Malfy When Shakespeare soared from life to death, above 38846
301: Prologue to The Revenger's Tragedy Fire, and behind the breathless flight of fire 36833
302: Prologue to The Spanish Gipsy The wind that brings us from the springtide south 40834
303: Prologue to The Two Noble Kinsmen Sweet as the dewfall, splendid as the south, 30927
304: Quia Multum Amavit Am i not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, 152897
305: Quia Nominor Leo - Sonnets What part is left thee, lion? Ravenous beast, 1882 28942
306: Recollections Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken 33907
307: Reverse The wave that breaks against a forward stroke 1899 14624
308: Rococo Take hands and part with laughter; 80697
309: Rondel These many years since we began to be, 18851
310: Rondel Kissing her hair I sat against her feet, 12625
311: Russia: an Ode Out of hell a word comes hissing, dark as doom, 1890 78615
312: Sapphics All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, 80644
313: Satia te Sanguine If you loved me ever so little, 72888
314: Sestina I saw my soul at rest upon a day 39665
315: Seven Years Old Seven white roses on one tree, 49843
316: Siena Inside this northern summer’s fold 324785
317: Sir William Gomm - Sonnets At threescore years and five aroused anew 28994
318: Six Years Old Between the springs of six and seven, 1880 36919
319: Sleep Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover 11655
320: Song Before Death Sweet mother, in a minute’s span 1795 18655
321: Song for the Centenary of Walter Savage Landor There is delight in singing, though none hear 828562
322: Sonnet for a Picture That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp, 14829
323: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays Ye too, dim watchfires of some darkling hour, 14744
324: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays More yet and more, and yet we mark not all: 14765
325: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays: Arden of Feversham Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men, 14801
326: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Beaumont and Fletcher An hour ere sudden sunset fired the west, 14875
327: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Ben Jonson Broad-based, broad-fronted, bounteous, multiform, 14888
328: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Christopher Marlowe Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire, 14877
329: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Epilogue Our mother, which wast twice, as history saith, 14831
330: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): George Chapman High priest of Homer, not elect in vain, 14715
331: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): James Shirley The dusk of day’s decline was hard on dark 14802
332: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Day Day was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive 14962
333: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Ford Hew hard the marble from the mountain’s heart 14895
334: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Marston The bitterness of death and bitterer scorn 14744
335: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Webster Thunder: the flesh quails, and the soul bows down. 14905
336: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Philip Massinger Clouds here and there arisen an hour past noon 14883
337: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): The Many Greene, garlanded with February’s few flowers, 28687
338: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): The Tribe of Benjamin Sons born of many a loyal Muse to Ben, 14679
339: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Thomas Decker Out of the depths of darkling life where sin 14868
340: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Thomas Heywood Tom, if they loved thee best who called thee Tom. 14740
341: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Thomas Middleton A wild moon riding high from cloud to cloud, 14952
342: Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): William Shakespeare Not if men's tongues and angels' all in one 14977
343: Sorrow Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, 11778
344: Spring in Tuscany Rose-red lilies that bloom on the banner; 60662
345: St. Dorothy It hath been seen and yet it shall be seen 480595
346: Stage Love When the game began between them for a jest, 16654
347: Stratford-on-Avon Be glad in heaven above all souls insphered, 1901 14626
348: Summer in Auvergne The sundawn fills the land 48622
349: Sunrise If the wind and the sunlight of April and August had mingled the past and hereafter 38669
350: Sunset and Moonrise All the west, whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's glorious grave 1889 14810
351: Super Flumina Babylonis By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, 128825
352: Tenebræ At the chill high tide of the night, 135852
353: Thalassius Upon the flowery forefront of the year, 500864
354: The Afterglow of Shakespeare Let there be light, said Time: and England heard: 86932
355: The Altar of Righteousness Light and night, whose clouds and glories change and mingle and divide, 300619
356: The Armada England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea, 1888 354865
357: The Augurs Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect 14623
358: The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay The sea swings owre the slants of sand, 116636
359: The Ballad of Melicertes Death, a light outshining life, bids heaven resume 36815
360: The Bloody Son O where have ye been the morn sae late, 89885
361: The Bride's Tragedy The wind wears roun', the day wears doun, 120692
362: The Brothers There were twa brethren fell on strife; 80672
363: The Burden of Austria O daughter of pride, wasted with misery, 1866 14675
364: The Centenary of Alexandre Dumas Sound of trumpets blowing down the merriest winds of morn, 14899
365: The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile A hundred years have lightened and have waned 1898 32668
366: The Channel Tunnel - Sonnets Not for less love, all glorious France, to thee, 1881 14829
367: The Commonweal Eight hundred years and twenty-one 1887 250856
368: The Commonweal: A Song for Unionists Men, whose fathers braved the world in arms against our isles in union, 1886 60587
369: The Complaint of Lisa There is no woman living who draws breath 150611
370: The Death of Richard Wagner Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, 33866
371: The Descent into Hell O Night and death, to whom we grudged him then, 1873 28633
372: The Emperor's Progress. - A Study in Three Stages. A child of brighter than the morning's birth 987
373: The Eve of Revolution The trumpets of the four winds of the world 432896
374: The Festival of Beatrice Dante, sole standing on the heavenward height 14754
375: The First of June Peace and war are one in proof of England's deathless praise. 141037
376: The Fourteenth of July Thou shouldst have risen as never dawn yet rose, 1880 14875
377: The Garden of Cymodoce Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air, 357835
378: The Garden of Proserpine Here, where the world is quiet; 96654
379: The Halt Before Rome Is it so, that the sword is broken, 1867 322869
380: The High Oaks Fourscore years and seven Light and dew from heaven 1896 108614
381: The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is: 26829
382: The Interpreters Days dawn on us that make amends for many 1885 48689
383: The King’s Daughter We were ten maidens in the green corn, 56844
384: The Lake of Gaube The sun is lord and god, sublime, serene, 70803
385: The Last Oracle Years have risen and fallen in darkness or in twilight, 147580
386: The Leper Nothing is better, I well think, 140624
387: The Litany of Nations If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, 176818
388: The Lute and the Lyre Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root, 11949
389: The Many Greene, garlanded with February's few flowers 14620
390: The Masque of Queen Bersabe - A Miracle-Play Knights mine, all that be in hall, 436608
391: The Moderates She stood before her traitors bound and bare, 1870 14610
392: The Monument of Giordano Bruno Not from without us, only from within, 1889 28803
393: The Oblation Ask nothing more of me, sweet; 18753
394: The Palace of Pan September, all glorious with gold, as a king 1893 65620
395: The Passing of the Hawthorn The coming of the hawthorn brings on earth 14845
396: The Person of the House The sickly airs had died of damp; 120799
397: The Pilgrims Who is your lady of love, O ye that pass 88870
398: The Poet and the Woodlouse Said a poet to a woodlouse, "Thou art certainly my brother; 52814
399: The Promise of the Hawthorn Spring sleeps and stirs and trembles with desire 14952
400: The Question Shall England consummate the crime 1887 100646
401: The Recall Return, they cry, ere yet your day 11573
402: The Resurrection of Alcilia Sweet song-flower of the Mayspring of our song, 141003
403: The Roundel A roundel is wrought as a ring or a starbright sphere, 11822
404: The Salt of the Earth If childhood were not in the world, 16870
405: The Saviour of Society O son of man, but of what man who knows? 28634
406: The Sea-Swallows This fell when Christmas lights were done, 64984
407: The Song of the Standard Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, 48893
408: The Statue of Victor Hugo Since in Athens God stood plain for adoration, 200674
409: The Sundew A little marsh-plant, yellow green, 45652
410: The Tale of Balen Love that holds life and death in fee, 1896 2290626
411: The Transvaal Patience, long sick to death, is dead. Too long 1899 14650
412: The Triumph of Time Before our lives divide for ever, 392609
413: The Turning of the Tide Storm, strong with all the bitter heart of hate, 1900 14601
414: The Twilight of the Lords Is the sound a trumpet blown, or a bell for burial tolled, 42865
415: The Two Dreams I will that if I say a heavy thing 442595
416: The Tyneside Widow There's mony a man loves land and life, 75788
417: The Union Three in one, but one in three, 32624
418: The Way of the Wind The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow 111007
419: The Weary Wedding O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, 236632
420: The Winds O weary fa' the east wind, 16600
421: The Witch-Mother O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep, 64637
422: The Year of Love There were four loves that one by one, 44871
423: The Year Of The Rose From the depths of the green garden-closes 86613
424: Three faces I. Ventimiglia The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: 11755
425: Three faces II. Genoa Again the same strange might of eyes, that saw 11762
426: Three faces III. Venice Out of the dark pure twilight, where the stream 11719
427: Three Weeks Old Three weeks since there was no such rose in being; 12876
428: Threnody Life, sublime and serene when time had power upon it and ruled its breath, 1892 27843
429: Threnody Watching here alone by the fire whereat last year 35789
430: Time and Life Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken 22905
431: Tiresias It is an hour before the hour of dawn. 384810
432: To a Baby Kinswoman Love, whose light thrills heaven and earth, 1894 90726
433: To a Cat Stately, kindly, lordly friend, 66677
434: To a Seamew When I had wings, my brother, 1886 120934
435: To Catullus My brother, my Valerius, dearest head 11530
436: To Dora Dorian Child of two strong nations, heir 11866
437: To Dr. John Brown - Sonnets Beyond the north wind lay the land of old 14620
438: To George Frederick Watts High thought and hallowed love, by faith made one, 1897 14607
439: To John Nichol - Sonnets Friend of the dead, and friend of all my days 28858
440: To Sir Richard F. Burton Westward the sun sinks, grave and glad; but far 14631
441: To the Memory of Walter Savage Landor oixeo de Boreethen apotropos' alla se Numphai 65554
442: To Victor Hugo In the fair days when God 192656
443: To Walt Whitman in America Send but a song oversea for us, 154846
444: To William Bell Scott - Sonnets The larks are loud above our leagues of whin 1882 14807
445: Trafalgar Day Sea, that art ours as we are thine, whose name 1895 32601
446: Tristram of Lyonesse - I - Prelude: Tristram and Iseult Love, that is first and last of all things made, 250741
447: Tristram of Lyonesse - I - The Sailing of the Swallow About the middle music of the spring 802766
448: Tristram of Lyonesse - II - The Queen’s Pleasance Out of the night arose the second day, 480751
449: Tristram of Lyonesse - III - Tristram in Brittany As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;’ 425783
450: Tristram of Lyonesse - IV - The Maiden Marriage Spring watched her last moon burn and fade with May 230788
451: Tristram of Lyonesse - IX - The Last Pilgrimage Fate, that was born ere spirit and flesh were made, 576605
452: Tristram of Lyonesse - V - Iseult at Tintagel But that same night in Cornwall oversea 341734
453: Tristram of Lyonesse - VI - Joyous Gard A little time, O Love, a little light, 503615
454: Tristram of Lyonesse - VII - The Wife’s Vigil But all that year in Brittany forlorn, 230593
455: Tristram of Lyonesse - VIII - The Last Pilgrimage Enough of ease, O Love, enough of light, 644639
456: Twins April, on whose wings Ride all gracious things, 1881 120859
457: Two preludes Love, out of the depth of things, 22874
458: Via Dolorosa The days of a man are threescore years and ten. 1887 112766
459: Victor Hugo: L’archipel de la Manche Sea and land are fairer now, nor aught is all the same, 14836
460: Vos Deos Laudamus: The Conservative Journalist’s Anthem O Lords our Gods, beneficent, sublime, 1883 42772
461: Wasted Love What shall be done for sorrow 11831
462: What is Death! Looking on a page where stood 14844
463: William Shakespeare Not if men’s tongues and angels’ all in one 14726
464: Winter in Northumberland Outside the garden The wet skies harden; 240618




About:
Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion.


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