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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Poems

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 Childs Battles
A Childs Future
A Childs Laughter
A Childs Pity
A Childs 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 Years 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 Carols
A Years Burden
Adieux 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 Barbs
Astrophel
Astra 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
Flise
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 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
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
Phdra
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
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: 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
Tenebr
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 Kings 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
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 Queens 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 Wifes Vigil
Tristram of Lyonesse - VIII - The Last Pilgrimage
Twins
Two preludes
Via Dolorosa
Victor Hugo: Larchipel de la Manche
Vos Deos Laudamus: The Conservative Journalists Anthem
Wasted Love
What is Death!
William Shakespeare
Winter in Northumberland