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Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems

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• A Baby's Death
• A Baby's Epitaph
• A Ballad at Parting
• A Ballad Of Appeal
• A Ballad of Bath
• A Ballad of Burdens
• A Ballad of Death
• A Ballad of Dreamland
• A Ballad of Life
• A Ballad Of Sark
• A Cameo
• A Channel Crossing
• A Channel Passage
• A Child's Battles
• A Child's Future
• A Child's Laughter
• A Child's Pity
• A Child's Thanks
• A Choice
• A Christmas Carol 1
• A Clasp of Hands
• A Counsel
• A Dark Month
• A Dead Friend
• A Dead King
• A Death on Easter Day - Sonnets
• A Dialogue
• A Dirge
• A Double Ballad Of August
• A Flower-piece by Fantin
• A Forsaken Garden
• A Jacobite's Exile
• A Jacobite's Farewell
• A Lamentation
• A Landscape by Courbet
• A Last Look - Sonnets
• A Leave-Taking
• A Litany
• A Lyke-wake Song
• A Marching Song
• A Match
• A Midsummer Holiday:- I. The Seaboard
• A Midsummer Holiday:- II. A Haven
• A Midsummer Holiday:- III. On a Country Road
• A Midsummer Holiday:- IV. The Mill Garden
• A Midsummer Holiday:- IX. On The Verge
• A Midsummer Holiday:- V. A Sea-Mark
• A Midsummer Holiday:- VI. The Cliffside Path
• A Midsummer Holiday:- VII. In The Water
• A Midsummer Holiday:- VIII. The Sunbows
• A Moss-Rose
• A New Century
• A New Year's Eve
• A New Year's Message
• A New-Year Ode
• A Night-piece by Millet
• A Ninth Birthday
• A Nympholept
• A Parting Song
• A Reiver's Neck-Verse
• A Reminiscence
• A Rhyme
• A Roundel From the French of Villon
• A Roundel of Rabelais
• A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
• A Singing Lesson
• A Solitude
• A Song in Time of Order. 1852
• A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
• A Song Of Italy
• A Study From Memory - Sonnets
• A Swimmer's Dream
• A Watch in the Night
• A Word for the Country
• A Word for the Nation
• A Word for the Navy
• A Word From the Psalmist
• A Word with the Wind
• A Year After
• A Year's Burden
• A Year's Carols
• Adieux à Marie Stuart
• After A Reading
• After Death
• After Looking into Carlyles Reminiscences - Sonnets
• After Nine Years
• After Sunset - Sonnets
• After the Verdict
• Aholibah
• An Appeal
• An Autumn Vision
• An Evening at Vichy
• An Interlude
• An Old Saying
• Anactoria
• Anima Anceps
• Aperotos Eros
• Apologia
• Apostasy
• April
• Armand Barbés
• Astrophel
• Astræa Victrix
• At a Dog's Grave
• At Eleusis
• At Sea
• Athens: An Ode.
• Au Tombeau de Banville
• August
• Autumn and Winter
• Autumn In Cornwall
• Ave atque Vale
• Baby-Bird
• Babyhood
• Barking Hall: A Year After
• Before a Crucifix
• Before Dawn
• Before Parting
• Before Sunset
• Before the Mirror
• Benediction
• Birth and Death
• Birthday Ode
• Birthday Ode for the Anniversary Festival of Victor Hugo
• Bismarck at Canossa - Sonnets
• Blessed Among Women
• Burns: an Ode
• By the North Sea
• By the Wayside
• By Twilight
• Caliban on Ariel
• Carnot
• Celaeno
• Change
• Choriambics
• Christmas Antiphones
• Clear The Way!
• Cleopatra
• Comparisons
• Concord
• Cor Cordium
• Cradle Songs
• Cromwell's Statue1
• Dead Love
• Death and Birth
• Dedication - A Channel Passage and Other Poems
• Dedication - From "A Century of Roundels"
• Dedication - ristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems
• Dedication From "Astrophel and Other Poems"
• Dedication From "Poems and Ballads"
• Dedication to Alice Swinburne
• Dedication to Edward John Trelawny
• Dedication to Joseph Mazzini
• Delphic Hymn to Apollo
• Dickens - Sonnets
• Discord
• Dolores
• Dysthanatos - Sonnets
• East to West
• Eight Years Old
• Elegy
• England: an Ode
• Envoi
• Epicede
• Epilogue to Songs Before Sunrise
• Erechtheus
• Eros
• Erotion
• Eton: an Ode
• Etude Realiste
• Euonymos - Sonnets
• Eurydice
• Euthanatos
• Evening on the Broads
• Faustine
• Félise
• First and Last
• First Footsteps
• Flower-pieces I. Love Lies Bleeding
• Flower-pieces II. Love in a Mist
• For a Portrait Of Felice Orsini
• For Greece and Crete
• Four Songs Of Four Seasons
• Fragoletta
• Genesis
• Grace Darling
• Grand Chorus of Birds from Aristophanes
• Had I Wist
• Hawthorn Dyke
• Hawthorn Tide
• Heartsease Country
• Hendecasyllabics
• Hermaphroditus
• Herse
• Hertha
• Hesperia
• Hope and Fear - Sonnets
• Hymn of Man
• Hymn to Proserpine
• Ilicet
• In a Garden
• In a Rosary
• In Guernsey
• In Harbour
• In Memory of Aurelio Saffi
• In Memory of Aurelio Saffi [2]
• In Memory Of Henry A. Bright
• In Memory of John William Inchbold
• In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
• In San Lorenzo
• In Sark
• In Sepulcretis
• In The Bay
• In the Orchard
• In Time of Mourning
• Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal
• Insularum Ocelle'
• Intercession
• Itylus
• Jacobite Song
• John Jones's Wife
• Joyeuse Garde
• Last Words of a Seventh-Rate Poet
• Launch of The Livadia
• Laus Veneris
• Les Casquets
• Les Noyades
• Life in Death
• Light: an Epicede
• Lines on the Death of Edward John Trelawny
• Lines on the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini
• Loch Torridon
• Locusta
• Louis Blanc - Three Sonnets To His Memory
• Love and Scorn
• Love and Sleep
• Love at Sea
• Love In A Mist
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Lucifer
• Madonna Mia
• March: an Ode
• Marzo Pazzo
• Mater Dolorosa
• Mater Triumphalis
• May Janet
• Maytime In Midwinter
• Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott
• Mentana: First Anniversary
• Mentana: Second Anniversary
• Mentana: Third Anniversary
• Messidor
• Monotones
• Mourning
• Music: an Ode
• Neap-Tide
• Nell Gwyn
• Nephelidia
• New Year's Day
• Night
• Nine Years Old
• Non Dolet
• Northumberland
• Not a Child
• Ode on the Insurrection in Candia
• Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic
• Off Shore
• Olive
• On an Old Roundel
• On Lamb's Specimens of Dramatic Poets - Sonnets
• On The Bicentenary of Corneille
• On The Cliffs
• On the Death of Colonel Benson
• On the Death of Mrs. Lynn Linton
• On the Death of Richard Burton
• On The Death Of Richard Doyle
• On the Death of Sir Henry Taylor
• On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle - Sonnets
• On the Downs
• On the Russian Persecution of the Jews - Sonnets
• On the South Coast
• One of Twain
• Pan and Thalassius
• Papal Allocution
• Past Days
• Pelagius
• Perinde ac Cadaver
• Peter's Pence From Perugia
• Phædra
• Plus Intra
• Plus Ultra
• Poems and Ballads - Dedication
• Prelude to Songs Before Sunrise
• Prologue to A Very Woman
• Prologue to Arden of Feversham
• Prologue to Doctor Faustus
• Prologue to Old Fortunatus
• Prologue to The Broken Heart
• Prologue to The Duchess of Malfy
• Prologue to The Revenger's Tragedy
• Prologue to The Spanish Gipsy
• Prologue to The Two Noble Kinsmen
• Quia Multum Amavit
• Quia Nominor Leo - Sonnets
• Recollections
• Reverse
• Rococo
• Rondel
• Rondel [2]
• Russia: an Ode
• Sapphics
• Satia te Sanguine
• Sestina
• Seven Years Old
• Siena
• Sir William Gomm - Sonnets
• Six Years Old
• Sleep
• Song Before Death
• Song for the Centenary of Walter Savage Landor
• Sonnet for a Picture
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays [2]
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Anonymous Plays: Arden of Feversham
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Beaumont and Fletcher
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Ben Jonson
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Christopher Marlowe
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Epilogue
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): George Chapman
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): James Shirley
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Day
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Ford
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Marston
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Webster
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Philip Massinger
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): The Many
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): The Tribe of Benjamin
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Thomas Decker
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Thomas Heywood
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): Thomas Middleton
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): William Shakespeare
• Sorrow
• Spring in Tuscany
• St. Dorothy
• Stage Love
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Summer in Auvergne
• Sunrise
• Sunset and Moonrise
• Super Flumina Babylonis
• Tenebræ
• Thalassius
• The Afterglow of Shakespeare
• The Altar of Righteousness
• The Armada
• The Augurs
• The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay
• The Ballad of Melicertes
• The Bloody Son
• The Bride's Tragedy
• The Brothers
• The Burden of Austria
• The Centenary of Alexandre Dumas
• The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile
• The Channel Tunnel - Sonnets
• The Commonweal
• The Commonweal: A Song for Unionists
• The Complaint of Lisa
• The Death of Richard Wagner
• The Descent into Hell
• The Emperor's Progress. - A Study in Three Stages.
• The Eve of Revolution
• The Festival of Beatrice
• The First of June
• The Fourteenth of July
• The Garden of Cymodoce
• The Garden of Proserpine
• The Halt Before Rome
• The High Oaks
• The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
• The Interpreters
• The King's Daughter
• The Lake of Gaube
• The Last Oracle
• The Leper
• The Litany of Nations
• The Lute and the Lyre
• The Many
• The Masque of Queen Bersabe - A Miracle-Play
• The Moderates
• The Monument of Giordano Bruno
• The Oblation
• The Palace of Pan
• The Passing of the Hawthorn
• The Person of the House
• The Pilgrims
• The Poet and the Woodlouse
• The Promise of the Hawthorn
• The Question
• The Recall
• The Resurrection of Alcilia
• The Roundel
• The Salt of the Earth
• The Saviour of Society
• The Sea-Swallows
• The Song of the Standard
• The Statue of Victor Hugo
• The Sundew
• The Tale of Balen
• The Transvaal
• The Triumph of Time
• The Turning of the Tide
• The Twilight of the Lords
• The Two Dreams
• The Tyneside Widow
• The Union
• The Way of the Wind
• The Weary Wedding
• The Winds
• The Witch-Mother
• The Year of Love
• The Year Of The Rose
• Three faces I. Ventimiglia
• Three faces II. Genoa
• Three faces III. Venice
• Three Weeks Old
• Threnody
• Threnody [2]
• Time and Life
• Tiresias
• To a Baby Kinswoman
• To a Cat
• To a Seamew
• To Catullus
• To Dora Dorian
• To Dr. John Brown - Sonnets
• To George Frederick Watts
• To John Nichol - Sonnets
• To Sir Richard F. Burton
• To the Memory of Walter Savage Landor
• To Victor Hugo
• To Walt Whitman in America
• To William Bell Scott - Sonnets
• Trafalgar Day
• Tristram of Lyonesse - I - Prelude: Tristram and Iseult
• Tristram of Lyonesse - I - The Sailing of the Swallow
• Tristram of Lyonesse - II - The Queen's Pleasance
• Tristram of Lyonesse - III - Tristram in Brittany
• Tristram of Lyonesse - IV - The Maiden Marriage
• Tristram of Lyonesse - IX - The Last Pilgrimage
• Tristram of Lyonesse - V - Iseult at Tintagel
• Tristram of Lyonesse - VI - Joyous Gard
• Tristram of Lyonesse - VII - The Wife's Vigil
• Tristram of Lyonesse - VIII - The Last Pilgrimage
• Twins
• Two preludes
• Via Dolorosa
• Victor Hugo: L'archipel de la Manche
• Vos Deos Laudamus: The Conservative Journalist's Anthem
• Wasted Love
• What is Death!
• William Shakespeare
• Winter in Northumberland

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