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Algernon Charles Swinburne's Poetry, by title

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  • 'Non Dolet'
    It does not hurt.  She looked along the knife
      Smiling, and watched the thick drops mix and run
    14 lines
  • A Baby's Death
    A little soul scarce fledged for earth
    Takes wing with heaven again for goal
    78 lines
  • A Ballad of Burdens
    The burden of fair women. Vain delight,
    And love self-slain in some sweet shameful way,
    76 lines, 1 comment
  • A Ballad of Death
    Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,
    Girdle 
    125 lines, 1 comment
  • A Ballad of Dreamland
    I hid my heart in a nest of roses,
    Out of the sun's way, hidden apart;
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • A Ballad Of François Villon, Prince Of All Ballad-Makers
    Bird of the bitter bright grey golden morn
          Scarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years,
    41 lines
  • A Cameo
    THERE WAS a graven image of Desire
            Painted with red blood on a ground of gold
    13 lines
  • A Channel Crossing
    Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,
    Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence on
    78 lines
  • A Child's Battles
    Praise of the knights of old
    May sleep: their tale is told,
    174 lines
  • A Child's Laughter
    ALL the bells of heaven may ring,
    All the birds of heaven may sing,
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • A Christmas Carol
    THREE DAMSELS in the queen’s chamber,
        The queen’s mouth was most fair;
    82 lines
  • A Clasp Of Hands
    SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers
    That bask in heavenly heat
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • A Dead Friend
    Gone, O gentle heart and true,
    Friend of hopes foregone,
    85 lines
  • A Dialogue
    I
    DEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:
    45 lines
  • A Flower-Piece By Fantin
    Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,
    Which would the picture give us of these?
    11 lines
  • A Forsaken Garden
    IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,
    At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,
    90 lines
  • A Jacobite's Exile
      The weary day runs down and dies,
        The weary night wears through:
    100 lines
  • A Lamentation
    WHO hath known the ways of time
        Or trodden behind his feet?
    136 lines
  • A Landscape By Courbet
    Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still
    And glad of silence: down the wood sweeps clear
    11 lines
  • A Leave-Taking
        Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.
        Let us go hence together without fear;
    45 lines
  • A Litany
    FIRST ANTIPHONE.
    ALL the bright lights of heaven
    152 lines
  • A Marching Song
    We mix from many lands,
    We march for very far;
    226 lines
  • A Match
    If love were what the rose is,
    And I were like the leaf,
    48 lines, 5 comments
  • A New Year's Message To Joseph Mazzini
    Send the stars light, but send not love to me.
    Shelley.
    58 lines
  • A Night-Piece By Millet
    Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking
    Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • A Ninth Birthday
    Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing
    Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice
    35 lines
  • A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
    I1.
    The clearest eyes in all the world they read
    225 lines
  • A Singing Lesson
    Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses,
    Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but nought
    12 lines
  • A Song in Time of Order. 1852
    PUSH hard across the sand,
            For the salt wind gathers breath;
    68 lines
  • A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
    THE HEART of the rulers is sick, and the high-priest covers his head:
    For this is the song of the quick that is heard in the ears of
    67 lines
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