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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne

In Six Volumes

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

VOLUME I POEMS AND BALLADS

II.

VOLUME II. SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE AND SONGS OF TWO NATIONS

III.

VOLUME III POEMS AND BALLADS AND SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES

THE COMPLAINT OF LISA

FOR THE FEAST OF GIORDANO BRUNO,

AVE ATQUE VALE

MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

SONNET (WITH A COPY OF Mademoiselle de Maupin)

AGE AND SONG

IN MEMORY OF BARRY CORNWALL

A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND

CYRIL TOURNEUR

A BALLAD OF FRANÇOIS VILLON

PASTICHE

BEFORE SUNSET

SONG

A VISION OF SPRING IN WINTER

FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS

I WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND

II.

II SPRING IN TUSCANY

III.

III SUMMER IN AUVERGNE

IV.

IV AUTUMN IN CORNWALL

THE WHITE CZAR

RIZPAH

TO LOUIS KOSSUTH

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF VILLON

FROM VICTOR HUGO

DEDICATION

POEMS AND BALLADS

SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES

IV.

VOLUME IV TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE. THE TALE OF BALEN. ATALANTA IN CALYDON. ERECHTHEUS

VOLUME V STUDIES IN SONG. A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS. SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. THE HEPTALOGIA ETC.

VI.

VOLUME VI A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY. ASTROPHEL. A CHANNEL PASSAGE. AND OTHER POEMS

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SONG

[Love laid his sleepless head]

Love laid his sleepless head
On a thorny rosy bed;
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead.

And fear and sorrow and scorn
Kept watch by his head forlorn,
Till the night was overworn
And the world was merry with morn.

And Joy came up with the day
And kissed Love's lips as he lay,
And the watchers ghostly and grey
Sped from his pillow away.

And his eyes as the dawn grew bright,
And his lips waxed ruddy as light:
Sorrow may reign for a night,
But day shall bring back delight.