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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne

In Six Volumes
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

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VOLUME I POEMS AND BALLADS
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VOLUME II. SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE AND SONGS OF TWO NATIONS
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VOLUME III POEMS AND BALLADS AND SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES
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VOLUME IV TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE. THE TALE OF BALEN. ATALANTA IN CALYDON. ERECHTHEUS
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VOLUME V STUDIES IN SONG. A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS. SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. THE HEPTALOGIA ETC.
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STUDIES IN SONG
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A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS
  
DEDICATION TO CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
  
IN HARBOUR
  
THE WAY OF THE WIND
  
“HAD I WIST”
  
RECOLLECTIONS
  
TIME AND LIFE
  
A DIALOGUE
  
PLUS ULTRA
  
A DEAD FRIEND
  
PAST DAYS
  
AUTUMN AND WINTER
  
THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER
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TWO PRELUDES
  
THE LUTE AND THE LYRE
  
PLUS INTRA
  
CHANGE
  
A BABY'S DEATH
  
ONE OF TWAIN
  
DEATH AND BIRTH
  
BIRTH AND DEATH
  
BENEDICTION
  
ÉTUDE RÉALISTE
  
BABYHOOD
  
FIRST FOOTSTEPS
  
A NINTH BIRTHDAY
  
NOT A CHILD
  
TO DORA DORIAN
  
THE ROUNDEL
  
AT SEA
  
WASTED LOVE
  
BEFORE SUNSET
  
A SINGING LESSON
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FLOWER-PIECES
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THREE FACES
  
EROS
  
SORROW
  
SLEEP
  
ON AN OLD ROUNDEL Translated by D. G. Rossetti from the French of Villon.
  
A LANDSCAPE BY COURBET
  
A FLOWER-PIECE BY FANTIN
  
A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET
  
“MARZO PAZZO”
  
DEAD LOVE
  
DISCORD
  
CONCORD
  
MOURNING
  
απεροτος ερος
  
TO CATULLUS
  
“INSULARUM OCELLE”
  
IN SARK
  
IN GUERNSEY
  
ENVOI
  
ATHENS:
  
THE STATUE OF VICTOR HUGO
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SONNETS
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SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS
  
A DARK MONTH
  
SUNRISE
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THE HEPTALOGIA
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VOLUME VI A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY. ASTROPHEL. A CHANNEL PASSAGE. AND OTHER POEMS

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VII
JOHN WEBSTER

Thunder: the flesh quails, and the soul bows down.
Night: east, west, south, and northward, very night.
Star upon struggling star strives into sight,
Star after shuddering star the deep storms drown.
The very throne of night, her very crown,
A man lays hand on, and usurps her right.
Song from the highest of heaven's imperious height
Shoots, as a fire to smite some towering town.
Rage, anguish, harrowing fear, heart-crazing crime,
Make monstrous all the murderous face of Time
Shown in the spheral orbit of a glass
Revolving. Earth cries out from all her graves.
Frail, on frail rafts, across wide-wallowing waves,
Shapes here and there of child and mother pass.
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