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Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III By: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) |
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Third Series By Algernon Charles Swinburne Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles
Swinburne Vol. III
THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE VOL. III
POEMS & BALLADS (SECOND AND THIRD SERIES) AND SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES
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 & BALLADS (SECOND AND THIRD SERIES) AND SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
1917 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
First printed (Chatto), 1904 Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12 (Heinemann), 1917
London: William Heinemann, 1917
POEMS AND BALLADS THIRD SERIES
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MARCH: AN ODE 169 THE COMMONWEAL 174 THE ARMADA 187 TO A SEAMEW 211 PAN AND THALASSIUS 215 A BALLAD OF BATH 222 IN A GARDEN 224 A RHYME 226 BABY BIRD 228 OLIVE 230 A WORD WITH THE WIND 234 NEAP TIDE 238 BY THE WAYSIDE 241 NIGHT 243 IN TIME OF MOURNING 244 THE INTERPRETERS 245 THE RECALL 248 BY TWILIGHT 249 A BABY'S EPITAPH 250 ON THE DEATH OF SIR HENRY TAYLOR 251 IN MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM INCHBOLD 252 NEW YEAR'S DAY 257 TO SIR RICHARD F. BURTON 258 NELL GWYN 259 CALIBAN ON ARIEL 260 THE WEARY WEDDING 261 THE WINDS 270 A LYKE WAKE SONG 271 A REIVER'S NECK VERSE 272 THE WITCH MOTHER 273 THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY 276 A JACOBITE'S FAREWELL 281 A JACOBITE'S EXILE 282 THE TYNESIDE WIDOW 286 DEDICATION 289
POEMS AND BALLADS THIRD SERIES
TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT POET AND PAINTER I DEDICATE THESE POEMS IN MEMORY OF MANY YEARS
MARCH: AN ODE 1887
I Ere frost flower and snow blossom faded and fell, and the splendour
of winter had passed out of sight,
The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger than dreams that
fulfil us in sleep with delight;
The breath of the mouths of the winds had hardened on tree tops and
branches that glittered and swayed
Such wonders and glories of blossomlike snow or of frost that
outlightens all flowers till it fade
That the sea was not lovelier than here was the land, nor the night
than the day, nor the day than the night,
Nor the winter sublimer with storm than the spring: such mirth had
the madness and might in thee made,
March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that
enkindle the season they smite.
II And now that the rage of thy rapture is satiate with revel and
ravin and spoil of the snow,
And the branches it brightened are broken, and shattered the
tree tops that only thy wrath could lay low,
How should not thy lovers rejoice in thee, leader and lord of the
year that exults to be born
So strong in thy strength and so glad of thy gladness whose
laughter puts winter and sorrow to scorn?
Thou hast shaken the snows from thy wings, and the frost on thy
forehead is molten: thy lips are aglow
As a lover's that kindle with kissing, and earth, with her raiment
and tresses yet wasted and torn,
Takes breath as she smiles in the grasp of thy passion to feel
through her spirit the sense of thee flow... Continue reading book >>
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