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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
  
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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AFTER THE VERDICT

France, cloven in twain by fire of hell and hate,
Shamed with the shame of men her meanest born,
Soldier and judge whose names, inscribed for scorn,
Stand vilest on the record writ of fate,
Lies yet not wholly vile who stood so great,
Sees yet not all her praise of old outworn.
Not yet is all her scroll of glory torn,
Or left for utter shame to desecrate.
High souls and constant hearts of faithful men
Sustain her perfect praise with tongue and pen
Indomitable as honour. Storms may toss
And soil her standard ere her bark win home:
But shame falls full upon the Christless cross
Whose brandmark signs the holy hounds of Rome.
September 1899.
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