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Algernon Charles Swinburne's Poetry, by first line

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  • Messidor
    Put in the sickles and reap;
    For the morning of harvest is red,
    82 lines
  • Ode On The Insurrection In Candia
    STR. 1
    I laid my laurel-leaf
    258 lines
  • Eurydice - To Victor Hugo
    Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries,
    And hardly for the storm and ruin shed
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • An Appeal
    Art thou indeed among these,
    Thou of the tyrannous crew,
    85 lines
  • Perinde AC Cadaver
    In a vision Liberty stood
    By the childless charm-stricken bed
    105 lines
  • Monotones
    Because there is but one truth;
    Because there is but one banner;
    42 lines
  • The Oblation
    Ask nothing more of me, sweet;
    All I can give you I give.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • In Harbour
    Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us
    As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;
    25 lines
  • The Way Of The Wind
    The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow
    None may measure, as none can say
    11 lines
  • Had I Wist
    Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing
    Light and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright trust,
    11 lines
  • Recollections
    Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken
    Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,
    37 lines
  • Time And Life
    Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken
    Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame
    25 lines
  • Plus Ultra
    Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises
    Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond:
    11 lines
  • A Dead Friend
    Gone, O gentle heart and true,
    Friend of hopes foregone,
    85 lines
  • Past Days
    Dead and gone, the days we had together,
    Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone
    37 lines
  • Autumn And Winter
    Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon
    Between two dates of death, while men were fain
    45 lines
  • The Death Of Richard Wagner
    Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend,
    Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth
    33 lines
  • Prelude - Lohengrin
    Love, out of the depth of things,
    As a dewfall felt from above,
    12 lines
  • Prelude - Tristan And Isolde
    Fate, out of the deep sea's gloom,
    When a man's heart's pride grows great,
    11 lines
  • The Lute And The Lyre
    Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root,
    Finds reluctant voice in verse that yearns like soaring fire,
    12 lines
  • Plus Intra
    Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure,
    Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense
    12 lines
  • Change
    But now life's face beholden
    Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow
    12 lines
  • A Baby's Death
    A little soul scarce fledged for earth
    Takes wing with heaven again for goal
    78 lines
  • One Of Twain
    One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken,
    Now hath passed from sense of sun and rain:
    23 lines
  • Death And Birth
    Death and birth should dwell not near together:
    Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Birth And Death
    Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother,
    Night and day, on all things that draw breath,
    12 lines
  • Benediction
    Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing
    Little children live and die, possest
    12 lines
  • Etude Realiste
    A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink,
    Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
    37 lines
  • Babyhood
    A baby shines as bright
    If winter or if May be
    48 lines
  • First Footsteps
    A little way, more soft and sweet
    Than fields aflower with May,
    12 lines
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