Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old That cried on each other, All crying aloud on the […]

Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends […]

Blest in death and life beyond man’s guessing Little children live and die, possest Still of grace that keeps them […]

STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, […]

Unreconciled by life’s fleet years, that fled With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild, Though two great spirits had […]

Beneath the shadow of dawn’s aërial cope, With eyes enkindled as the sun’s own sphere, Hope from the front of […]

In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the […]

At the chill high tide of the night, At the turn of the fluctuant hours, When the waters of time […]

from Atalanta in Calydon When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, The mother of months in meadow or […]

From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An […]