Algernon Charles Swinburne
Born in April 5, 1837 / Died in April 10, 1909 / United Kingdom / English
Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dedication To Joseph Mazzini
... Shall cast down, shall build up, shall bring home ...
Cor Cordium
... True for thy truth's sake, for thy strength's sake strong, ...
Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire)
... Passions that sprang from sleep and thoughts that started, ...
An Appeal
... Fugitives, men that are true!"This was thy praise or thy blame ...
Autumn And Winter
... A star had set.All heaven rings back, sonorous with regret, ...
The Complaint of Lisa
... Would God to me, too, such a thing were done! But if such sweet and bitter things be done, ...
A Channel Crossing
... For the ship that had fought them, and wrestled, and revelled in labour, to cease from her pain ...
In the Bay
... And heard thine loudest of the lyre-notes there--IXIf yet thy fire have not one spark the less, ...
Perinde AC Cadaver
... I am strong: Thou hast seen me bowed down on my dead ...
The Death Of Richard Wagner
... From the depths of the sea, from the wellsprings of earth, from the wastes of the midmost night, ...
To A Cat
... Seeing the sky Change to heaven revealed, and bid ...
Prelude - Lohengrin
... Love,Love, heard from the heights thereof, ...
Had I Wist
... 'Had I wist' -Surely not the roses, laughing as they kissed, ...
Benediction
... Aught that yearns and trembles to be prest,Each least glance, gives gifts of grace, redressing ...
Epilogue
... Crawl forth and smite his father dead:Sees death made drunk with war, sees time ...
