Algernon Charles Swinburne
Born in April 5, 1837 / Died in April 10, 1909 / United Kingdom / English
Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
For A Picture
... Like an asp, One lithe lock wriggles in his rutilant grasp ...
The Epitaph In Form Of A Ballad Which Villon Made For Himself And His Comrades, Expecting To Be Hang
... Ye should not hold our prayer in scorn, though we ...
On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot: Sonnets
... And one whose eye could smite the night in sunder, ...
Hermaphroditus
... Though for their love our tears like blood should flow, ...
Bismarck at Canossa: Sonnets
... But how much more abased, much lower brought low, ...
The Two Dreams
... another one Holds a straight ankle in her hand and swings ...
Ilicet
... From boys pierced throat and girls pierced bosom ...
Fragoletta
... What fields have bred thee, or what groves ...
A Song in Time of Order. 1852
... And the galley-bench creaks with a Pope, ...
A Lamentation
... II. Who hath known the pain, the old pain of earth, ...
Age And Song (to Barry Cornwall)
... The old dew still falls on the old sweet flowers, ...
On the Russian Persecution of the Jews: Sonnets
... By slaughterous hands of slaves with feet red-shod ...
Thomas Decker: VIII
... Nor gave Christ praise from lips more sweet with pity ...
Atalanta in Calydon
... , And love, and a space for delight,And beauty and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night ...
Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy (complete text)
... anDied woman-wise, a woman's offering, slainThrough female fingers in his woof of life,Dishonourable ...
