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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne

In Six Volumes

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

VOLUME I POEMS AND BALLADS

II.

III.

IN MEMORY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

A SONG IN TIME OF ORDER. 1852.

A SONG IN TIME OF REVOLUTION. 1860.

TO VICTOR HUGO

BEFORE DAWN

DOLORES

THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE

THE MASQUE OF QUEEN BERSABE

II.

VOLUME II. SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE AND SONGS OF TWO NATIONS

III.

VOLUME III POEMS AND BALLADS AND 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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THE WAY OF THE WIND

The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow
None may measure, as none can say
How the heart in her shows the swallow
The wind's way.

Hope nor fear can avail to stay
Waves that whiten on wrecks that wallow,
Times and seasons that wane and slay.

Life and love, till the strong night swallow
Thought and hope and the red last ray,
Swim the waters of years that follow
The wind's way.