Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837–1909
Algernon Swinburne
Best-known poems
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The Garden of Proserpine
Here, where the world is quiet,
Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot … -
Nephelidia
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine,
Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float,
Are they looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine, …
All poems (24)
- A Forsaken GardenIn a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,
- A MatchIf love were what the rose is,
- A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert BrowningI
- Ave atque ValeShall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel,
- Chorus from 'Atalanta'When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
- Cor Cordium (Swinburne)O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire,
- DickensChief in thy generation born of men
- HerthaI AM that which began;
- HesperiaOut of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is,
- Hope and FearBeneath the shadow of dawn’s aerial cope,
- In Memory of Walter Savage LandorBack to the flower-town, side by side,
- ItylusSwallow, my sister, O sister swallow,
- Kissing Her HairKissing her hair, I sat against her feet:
- NephelidiaFrom the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous no…
- On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George EliotTwo souls diverse out of our human sight
- On the Monument erected to Mazzini at GenoaItalia, mother of the souls of men,
- The Garden of ProserpineHere, where the world is quiet,
- Étude RéalisteI.
- “When the hounds of spring”When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces,
