Selected Verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Selected Verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784100421
Publisher: Carcanet


In their strayed eyes; these gold flower-fumèd eves

Burnt out to make the sun’s love-offering,

The midnoon’s prayer, the rose’s thanksgiving,

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The trees’ weight burdening the strengthless air,

The shape of her stilled eyes, her coloured hair,

Her body’s balance from the moving feet—

All this, found fair, lacked yet one grain of sweet

It had some warm weeks back: so perisheth

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On May’s new lip the tender April breath:

So those same walks the wind sowed lilies in



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