Algernon Charles Swinburne

  • Tenger és alkonyég között
    a szerelem hozzámszökött.
    Örömre bú jött, napra éj,
    a hosszú vágyra kurta kéj,
    s óh, szerelem, reád mi jött
    tenger és tengerpart között!

    Tenger és kikötő között
    az édesből keserű lett,
    a vágyból könny, a könnyből láng,...

  • La nuit écoute et se penche sur l'onde
    Pour y cueillir rien qu'un souffle d'amour ;
    Pas de lueur, pas de musique au monde,
    Pas de sommeil pour moi ni de séjour.
    Ô mère, ô Nuit, de ta source profonde
    Verse-nous, verse enfin l'oubli du jour.

    Verse l'oubli de...

  • 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...

  • Italia, mother of the souls of men,
                Mother divine,
    Of all that served thee best with sword or pen,
                All sons of thine,

    Thou knowest that here the likeness of the best
                Before thee stands:
    The head most high, the...

  • Two souls diverse out of our human sight
    Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder:
    The stormy sophist with his mouth of thunder,
    Clothed with loud words and mantled in the might
    Of darkness and magnificence of night;
    And one whose eye could smite...

  •   CHIEF in thy generation born of men
    Whom English praise acclaimed as English born,
    With eyes that matched the world-wide eyes of morn
    For gleam of tears or laughter, tenderest then
    When thoughts of children warmed their light, or when
    Reverence of age...

  • Back to the flower-town, side by side,
        The bright months bring,
    New-born, the bridegroom and the bride,
        Freedom and spring.

    The sweet land laughs from sea to sea,
        Filled full of sun;
    All things come back to her, being free;...

  • 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,
      The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.
    A girdle of brushwood and thorn encloses
      The steep, square slope...

  • When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces,
      The mother of months in meadow or plain
    Fills the shadows and windy places
      With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain;
    And the brown bright nightingale amorous
    Is half assuaged for Itylus,
    For the...

  • Out of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is,
      Full of the sunset, and sad, if at all, with the fulness of joy,
    As a wind sets in with the autumn that blows from the region of stories,
      Blows with a perfume of songs and of memories beloved from a...