Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III   By: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol. III

SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS

I. POEMS AND BALLADS (First Series).

II. SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE and SONGS OF TWO NATIONS.

III. POEMS AND BALLADS (Second and Third Series), and SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES.

IV. TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE, THE TALE OF BALEN, ATALANTA IN CALYDON, ERECHTHEUS.

V. STUDIES IN SONG, A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS, SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, THE HEPTALOGIA, ETC.

VI. A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY, ASTROPHEL, A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

Poems and Ballads Second Series

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol. III

1917 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

First printed (Chatto), 1904 Reprinted 1904, '05, '10, '12 (Heinemann), 1917

London: William Heinemann, 1917

CONTENTS

POEMS AND BALLADS

Second Series

The Last Oracle 5

In the Bay 11

A Forsaken Garden 22

Relics 26

At a Month's End 29

Sestina 34

The Year of the Rose 36

A Wasted Vigil 39

The Complaint of Lisa 42

For the Feast of Giordano Bruno 48

Ave Atque Vale 50

Memorial Verses on the Death of Théophile Gautier 58

Sonnet (with a Copy of Mademoiselle de Maupin ) 66

Age and Song (to Barry Cornwall) 67

In Memory of Barry Cornwall 69

Epicede 72

To Victor Hugo 74

Inferiae 75

A Birth Song 77

Ex Voto 81

A Ballad of Dreamland 85

Cyril Tourneur 87

A Ballad of François Villos 88

Pastiche 90

Before Sunset 92

Song 93

A Vision of Spring in Winter 94

Choriambics 98

At Parting 100

A Song in Season 101

Two Leaders 107

Victor Hugo in 1877 109

Child's Song 110

Triads 111

Four Songs of Four Seasons:

I. Winter in Northumberland 113

II. Spring in Tuscany 122

III. Summer in Auvergne 125

IV. Autumn in Cornwall 127

The White Czar 129

Rizpah 131

To Louis Kossuth 132

Translations from the French of Villon:

The Complaint of the Fair Armouress 133

A Double Ballad of Good Counsel 137

Fragment on Death 139

Ballad of the Lords of Old Time 140

Ballad of the Women of Paris 142

Ballad written for a Bridegroom 144

Ballad against the Enemies of France 146

The Dispute of the Heart and Body of François Villon 148

Epistle in form of a Ballad to his Friends 150

The Epitaph in form of a Ballad 152

From Victor Hugo 154

Nocturne 155

Théophile Gautier 157

Ode 158

In Obitom Theophili Poetæ 160

Ad Catullum 161

Dedication, 1878 162

POEMS AND BALLADS

SECOND SERIES