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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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POEMS AND BALLADS
  
[dedication]
  
THE LAST ORACLE
  
IN THE BAY
  
A FORSAKEN GARDEN
  
RELICS
  
AT A MONTH'S END
  
SESTINA
  
THE YEAR OF THE ROSE
  
A WASTED VIGIL
  
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
  
EPICEDE
  
TO VICTOR HUGO
  
INFERIAE
  
A BIRTH-SONG
  
EX-VOTO
  
A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND
  
CYRIL TOURNEUR
  
A BALLAD OF FRANÇOIS VILLON
  
PASTICHE
  
BEFORE SUNSET
  
SONG
  
A VISION OF SPRING IN WINTER
  
CHORIAMBICS
  
AT PARTING
  
A SONG IN SEASON
  
TWO LEADERS
  
VICTOR HUGO IN 1877
  
CHILD'S SONG
  
TRIADS
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FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS
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I WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND
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II SPRING IN TUSCANY
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III SUMMER IN AUVERGNE
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IV AUTUMN IN CORNWALL
  
THE WHITE CZAR
  
RIZPAH
  
TO LOUIS KOSSUTH
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF VILLON
  
FROM VICTOR HUGO
  
DEDICATION
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POEMS AND BALLADS
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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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VOLUME VI A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY. ASTROPHEL. A CHANNEL PASSAGE. AND OTHER POEMS

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[Strong time and fire-swift change, with lightnings clad]

Strong time and fire-swift change, with lightnings clad
And shod with thunders of reverberate years,
Have filled with light and sound of hopes and fears
The space of many a season, since I had
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Grace of good hap to make my spirit glad,
Once communing with thine: and memory hears
The bright voice yet that then rejoiced mine ears,
Sees yet the light of eyes that spake, and bade
Fear not, but hope, though then time's heart were weak
And heaven by hell shade-stricken, and the range
Of high-born hope made questionable and strange
As twilight trembling till the sunlight speak.
Thou sawest the sunrise and the storm in one
Break: seest thou now the storm-compelling sun?
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