Algernon Charles Swinburne image
star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Born in April 5, 1837 / Died in April 10, 1909 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Eurydice - To Victor Hugo

... Even when she wakes of hell's most poisonous worm, ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Love In A Mist

... Love smiled in the flower with a meaning whereof none wist ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Watch In The Night

... Till the curse of the kings and the chain ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Blessed Among Women --To The Signora Cairoli

... The sweet-souled Saviour of a man-tormented earth ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Genesis

... That of itself begets, bears, rears, and slays,The immortal war of mortal things that is ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

To Catullus

... My brother.No dust that death or time can strew may smother ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Envoi

... Fly.Here and there may a chance-caught eye ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Eros

... Fades from their sight whose tongues proclaimed ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Pilgrims

... --Yea, but we Shall be a part of the earth and the ancient sea, ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Clasp Of Hands

... And mock with motion faint and fleetThe minutes of the new strange hours ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Hertha

... And the lives of my children made perfect with freedom of soul were my ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Hymn Of Man

... Time's motion that throbs in his blood is the thought that gives heart to the skies, ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell

... If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Tiresias

... My child's eyes hast thou taken in their stead--"Mother, thou knewest not what she had to give, ...

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Before A Crucifix

... And longing till thy kingdom come!The soldiers and the high priests part ...