Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.
    Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.
    Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.
    Ebook107 pages52 minutes

    Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.

    By Algernon Charles Swinburne

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.

    Read more from Algernon Charles Swinburne

    Related to Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      In Memory Of Derek Alton Walcott

      Mar 15, 2018

      1 Island traffic slows to a haltas screeching gulls reluctantto lift heavenwardcongregate like mourners in saltcrustedkelp, as the repellentnews spreads to colder shores: Sir Derek is no more.Bandwidths, clogged by streamingtributes, carry the pitcho

      2 min read

    • Article

      Bard In The Woods

      Nov 30, 2020

      Bard In The Woods
      4 min read

    • Article

      Poem Of The Week: The North Wind By Anne Brontë

      May 8, 2023

      That wind is from the North, I know it well;No other breeze could have so wild a swell.Now deep and loud it thunders round my cell,Then faintly dies,And softly sighs,And moans and murmurs mournfully.I know its language; thus is speaks to me – ‘I have

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Island (catullus 64)

      Mar 1, 2022

      Back then the evergreens tumbled downriverfrom the glaze-white runoff to the boot-stirred puddlesof amber young men who fulfilled our destiny,who clambered into ships, on horses, and in wagonspainting the newfound landscapes ours.Our calling was nobl

      9 min read

    • Article

      Alliteration’s Apt and Artful Aim

      Jan 31, 2019

      Every language has a certain aural spirit to it, an auditory fingerprint related to those sounds which constitute the melody and rhythm of any tongue. The post Alliteration’s Apt and Artful Aim appeared first on The Millions.

      14 min read

    • Article

      Meet Your New Favorite Poet

      Feb 20, 2019

      Meet Your New Favorite Poet
      6 min read

    • Article

      Poem Of The Week: Break, Break, Break By Alfred Tennyson

      Jul 18, 2022

      Break, Break, Break Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman’s boy,That he shouts with his sister at play!O, well for the sailor lad,That he sing

      2 min read

    • Article

      Wonderful Things

      Sep 7, 2023

      SHORTLISTED IN WM’S TUTANKHAMUN POETRY COMPETITION WERE: Guy Carter, Petersfield, Hampshire; Christine Griffin, Hucclecote, Gloucester; Sarah Das Gupta, Mamuden, Essex; Tracey Kitchen, Daventry, Northamptonshire; Lesley Mason, Norwich, Norfolk; Julie

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mountain Time

      Jan 1, 2021

      In the air you don’t know who you are or where My own self feels it is in wind being born These are currents a man made one eighth of smokeless fire fears but chooses A path south from Anchorage to a Mountain House Ungovern the northern land to pass

      10 min read

    • Article

      from 36 WAYS OF WRITING A VIETNAMESE POEM

      Feb 28, 2023

      You can’t go far wrong with violence.You’ll go far, my boy.You’ll cross oceans, my boy. Start with the Fall, go back or forth,Through bombs or boats,Across all the killing fields of thought. You can’t make it upBecause it’s all yours—by blood.By righ

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Mar 2, 2020

      Some people jump, some people dive,Others inch by inch arrive And give themselves up to the chill,Piecemeal, with a grudging will: First toes, then ankles tempt the cold,And backs of knees, that, tender, fold, Then thighs that start to pimple, blo

      2 min read

    • Article

      RHYME & REASON

      May 17, 2021

      RHYME & REASON
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Sedge Warbler

      May 31, 2023

      The Sedge Warbler
      2 min read

    • Article

      Terror From The Skies

      Oct 6, 2022

      Terror From The Skies
      4 min read

    • Article

      Death

      Mar 2, 2023

      Death
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Call Of The Wild

      Nov 30, 2020

      The Call Of The Wild
      2 min read

    • Article

      Earthly Flatulence

      Sep 25, 2019

      Earthly Flatulence
      5 min read

    • Article

      Chitchat

      Nov 24, 2023

      Chitchat
      12 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jan 1, 2022

      The painting is of a door, its wood so warpedwith moisture it cannot close. It stays ajar leaving a sliver of light—enough to suggestsomething sweet and almost unreachable behind the door—and you sit in yourroom working on the bills or those comforti

      4 min read

    • Article

      Damion Searls

      Sep 15, 2019

      Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises. Vol. 2 (1683–84), the first known manual of printing J. M. begins his book,Every thought taken up from the block with a rollOf the ball and inked on the form,A Craft of the Hand which cannot be taught by Words:“I th

      6 min read

    • Article

      God in the Trash Fire: Thomas Traherne Endures

      Sep 24, 2018

      “To burn a book is to bring light to the world.” —Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) “Every book burned enlightens the world.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Circumstances surrounding the occasional rediscovery of the poetry of the 17th-century divine

      13 min read

    • Article

      What Makes a Poet Difficult?

      May 28, 2019

      What Makes a Poet Difficult?
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Call Of The Desert

      Jan 3, 2023

      T.E. Lawrence was taken by his guides to a ruin in the desert of North Syria. The Arabs believed that it had been built by a prince for his queen and that its clay had been kneaded with the essential oils of flowers. As Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillar

      3 min read

    • Article

      Tessa Castro

      Jul 26, 2023

      IN COMPETITION No 295 you were invited to write a poem called Roots. Cherry MacGregor started off in medias res: ‘Has the vine died? My husband had asked,/ As we enjoyed lunch in the garden.’ Another excellent opening came from DM Davis: ‘Roots, oh m

      2 min read

    Reviews for Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels,

      Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc

      From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.

      Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Release Date: July 8, 2006 [EBook #18782]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STUDIES IN SONG ***

      Produced by Paul Murray, Lisa Reigel, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      Greek words that may not display correctly in all browsers are transliterated in the text using popups like this: βιβλος

      . Position your mouse over the word to see the transliteration.

      Various Poems:

      Athens: An Ode

      The Statue of Victor Hugo

      Euthanatos

      First and Last

      Lines on the Death of Edward John Trelawny

      Adieux à Marie Stuart

      Herse

      Twins

      The Salt of the Earth

      Seven Years Old

      Eight Years Old

      Comparisons

      What is Death?

      A Child's Pity

      A Child's Laughter

      A Child's Thanks

      A Child's Battles

      A Child's Future

      Sunrise

      By

      Algernon Charles Swinburne

      TAKEN FROM

      THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE—VOL V

      THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

      VOL. V

      STUDIES IN SONG: A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS: SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: THE HEPTALOGIA: ETC.

      SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      STUDIES IN SONG: A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS: SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: THE HEPTALOGIA: ETC.

      By

      Algernon Charles Swinburne

      1917

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      First printed (Chatto), 1904

      Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12

      (Heinemann), 1917

      London: William Heinemann, 1917

      ATHENS: AN ODE

      ATHENS

      AN ODE

      Ere from under earth again like fire the violet kindle,

      [Str. 1.

      Ere the holy buds and hoar on olive-branches bloom,

      Ere the crescent of the last pale month of winter dwindle,

      Shrink, and fall as falls a dead leaf on the dead month's tomb,

      Round the hills whose heights the first-born olive-blossom brightened,

      Round the city brow-bound once with violets like a bride,

      Up from under earth again a light that long since lightened

      Breaks, whence all the world took comfort as all time takes pride.

      Pride have all men in their fathers that were free before them,

      In the warriors that begat us free-born pride have we:

      But the fathers of their spirits, how may men adore them,

      With what rapture may we praise, who bade our souls be free?

      Sons of Athens born in spirit and truth are all born free men;

      Most of all, we, nurtured where the north wind holds his reign:

      Children all we sea-folk of the Salaminian seamen,

      Sons of them that beat back Persia they that beat back Spain.

      Since the songs of Greece fell silent, none like ours have risen;

      Since the sails of Greece fell slack, no ships have sailed like ours;

      How should we lament not, if her spirit sit in prison?

      How should we rejoice not, if her wreaths renew their flowers?

      All the world is sweeter, if the Athenian violet quicken:

      All the world is brighter, if the Athenian sun return:

      All things foul on earth wax fainter, by that sun's light stricken:

      All ill growths are withered, where those fragrant flower-lights burn.

      All the wandering waves of seas with

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1