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Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837 - 1909
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A Counsel
O strong Republic of the nobler years / Whose white feet shine beside time's fairer flood / That shall flow on the clearer for our blood
A Dark Month
I. / A month without sight of the sun / Rising or reigning or setting
A Dead Friend
I. / Gone, O gentle heart and true, / Friend of hopes foregone,
A Dead King
Go down to hell. This end is good to see; / The breath is lightened and the sense at ease / Because thou art not; sense nor breath there is
A Death on Easter Day - Sonnets
The strong spring sun rejoicingly may rise, / Rise and make revel, as of old men said, / Like dancing hearts of lovers newly wed:
A Double Ballad Of August
All Afric, winged with death and fire, / Pants in our pleasant English air. / Each blade of grass is tense as wire,
A Flower-piece by Fantin
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought, / Which would the picture give us of these? / Surely the heart that conceived it sought
A Forsaken Garden
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, / At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, / Walled round with rocks as an inland island,
A Jacobite's Exile
1746 / The weary day rins down and dies, / The weary night wears through:
A Jacobite's Farewell
1716 / There's nae mair lands to tyne, my dear, / And nae mair lives to gie:
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