Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Tom, if they loved thee best who called thee Tom.     What else may all men call thee, seeing thus bright     Even yet the laughing and the weep"

"I.     Greene, garlanded with Februarys few flowers,     Ere March came in with Marlowes rapturous rage:     Peele, from whose hand the sweet wh"

"(B.C. 280)     Done into English I     Thee, the son of God most high,     Famed for harping song, will I     Proclaim, and the deathless or"

"Ps. xciv. 8. I.     Take heed, ye unwise among the people:     O ye fools, when will ye understand?     From pulpit or choir beneath the st"

"I IN CHURCH     Thou whose birth on earth     Angels sang to men,     While thy stars made mirth,     Saviour, at thy birth,     This day born"

"Somno mollior unda I     Dawn is dim on the dark soft water,     Soft and passionate, dark and sweet.     Love's own self was the deep sea's"

"At the time when the stars are grey,     And the gold of the molten moon     Fades, and the twilight is thinned,     And the sun leaps up, and"

"Far off is the sea, and the land is afar:     The low banks reach at the sky,     Seen hence, and are heavenward high;     Though light for the"

"It hath been seen and yet it shall be seen     That out of tender mouths Gods praise hath been     Made perfect, and with wood and simple strin"

"ERECHTHEUS.     Mother of life and death and all men's days,     Earth, whom I chief of all men born would bless,     And call thee with more lovi"

"In the beginning God made thee     A woman well to look upon,     Thy tender body as a tree     Whereon cool wind hath always blown     Till t"

"If childhood were not in the world,     But only men and women grown;     No baby-locks in tendrils curled,     No baby-blossoms blown;     T"

"There is no woman living who draws breath     So sad as I, though all things sadden her.     There is not one upon life's weariest way     Who"

"As a vesture shalt thou change them, said the prophet,     And the raiment that was flesh is turned to dust;     Dust and flesh and dust again t"

"(During the Session in Rome of the Ecumenical Council)     In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began,     The word"

"Peace and war are one in proof of England's deathless praise.     One divine day saw her foemen scattered on the sea     Far and fast as storm c"

"I am that which began;     Out of me the years roll;     Out of me God and man;     I am equal and whole;     God changes, and man, and the fo"

"To the Signora Cairoli     Blessed was she that bare,     Hidden in flesh most fair,     For all mens sake the likeness of all love;     Holy"

"What will it please you, my darling, hereafter to be?     Fame upon land will you look for, or glory by sea?     Gallant your life will be alway"

"Stately stand the sunflowers, glowing down the garden-side,     Ranged in royal rank arow along the warm grey wall,     Whence their deep disks"

"Reconciled by death's mild hand, that giving     Peace gives wisdom, not more strong than mild,     Love beholds them, each without misgiving"

"Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old     That cried on each other,     All crying aloud on the dead as the death-note rolled,     Al"

"Spray of song that springs in April, light of love that laughs through May,     Live and die and live for ever: nought of all thing far less fair"

"Sick of self-love, Malvolio, like an owl     That hoots the sun rerisen where starlight sank,     With German garters crossed athwart thy frank"

"Death and birth should dwell not near together:     Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:     Fate doth ill to link in one brief"

"I.     Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,     With rising Anthesterion rose,     And all Hellenic heights acclaimed     Eros.     The sea one"

"Et Judas m'a dit: Tratre!     - Victor Hugo I     Truths change with time, and terms with truth. To-day     A statesman worships union, and"

"Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire,     Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star!     Soul nearest ours of all, that wer"

"Citoyen, lui dit Enjoiras, ma mre, cest la Rpublique.     - Les Misrables.     Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside,"

"1716     There's nae mair lands to tyne, my dear,     And nae mair lives to gie:     Though a man think sair to live nae mair,     There's but"

"Vidistis ipso rapere de rogo cnam.     - Catullus, LIX. 3.     To publish even one line of an author which he himself has not intended for"

"The coming of the hawthorn brings on earth     Heaven: all the spring speaks out in one sweet word,     And heaven grows gladder, knowing that e"

"A bell tolls on in my heart     As though in my ears a knell     Had ceased for awhile to swell,     But the sense of it would not part     Fr"

"Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warning,     Wind, whose feet are set on ways that none may tread,     Change the nest wher"

"I     Marlowe, the father of the sons of song     Whose praise is England's crowning praise, above     All glories else that crown her, sweet and s"

"I.     Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken     Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame     Ere the change of things and thoughts requ"

"But all that year in Brittany forlorn,     More sick at heart with wrath than fear of scorn     And less in love with love than grief, and less"

"As a matter of fact, no man living, or who ever lived, not Csar or Pericles, not Shakespeare or Michael Angelo, could confer honour more than he"

""The wind wears roun', the day wears doun,     The moon is grisly grey;     There's nae man rides by the mirk muirsides,     Nor down the dark"

"A little way, more soft and sweet     Than fields aflower with May,     A babe's feet, venturing, scarce complete     A little way.     Eyes"

"Nothing is better, I well think,     Than love; the hidden well-water     Is not so delicate to drink:     This was well seen of me and her."

"A little marsh-plant, yellow green,     And pricked at lip with tender red.     Tread close, and either way you tread     Some faint black wate"

"Day was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive     With murmuring joy of bees and birds aswarm,     When in the skies of song yet flushed and warm"

"Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands,     Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy sands,     S"

"I.     A word across the water     Against our ears is borne,     Of threatenings and of slaughter,     Of rage and spite and scorn:     We have"

"Strophe 1.     Spring, born in heaven ere many a springtime flown,     Dead spring that sawest on earth     A babe of deathless birth,     A flowe"

"Between the green bud and the red     Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed     From eyes and tresses flowers and tears,     From heart and spir"

"Theleme is afar on the waters, adrift and afar,     Afar and afloat on the waters that flicker and gleam,     And we feel but her fragrance and"

"I saw my soul at rest upon a day     As a bird sleeping in the nest of night,     Among soft leaves that give the starlight way     To touch it"

"To H.W.M.     Between the springs of six and seven,     Two fresh years' fountains, clear     Of all but golden sand for leaven,     Child,"

"(BRETON.)     Stand up, stand up, thou May Janet,     And go to the wars with me.     Hes drawn her by both hands     With her face against t"

"Chief in thy generation born of men     Whom English praise acclaimed as English-born,     With eyes that matched the worldwide eyes of morn"

"I     Is it Midsummer here in the heavens that illumine October on earth?     Can the year, when his heart is fulfilled with desire of the days of h"

"An hour ere sudden sunset fired the west,     Arose two stars upon the pale deep east.     The hall of heaven was clear for nights high feast,"

"Rains have left the sea-banks ill to climb:     Waveward sinks the loosening seaboards floor:     Half the sliding cliffs are mire and slime."

"Seaward goes the sun, and homeward by the down     We, before the night upon his grave be sealed.     Low behind us lies the bright steep murmur"

"Here begins the sea that ends not till the worlds end. Where we stand,     Could we know the next high sea-mark set beyond these waves that glea"

"Sweet as the dewfall, splendid as the south,     Love touched with speech Boccaccio's golden mouth,     Joy thrilled and filled its utterance fu"

"Rose-red lilies that bloom on the banner;     Rose-cheeked gardens that revel in spring;     Rose-mouthed acacias that laugh as they climb,"

"Clear the way, my lords and lackeys! you have had your day.     Here you have your answerEnglands yea against your nay:     Long enough your h"