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1837–1909 England

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet.

England
Poets

Also known as: Algernon Swinburne, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Swinburne, Swinburne, Charles Algernon

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I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships,
Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars
Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.

Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

The deep division of prodigious breasts,
The solemn slope of mighty limbs asleep.

Poems and Ballads: Second Series (1878)

Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat,
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.

A Century of Roundels (1883)

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink
Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
An angel's lips to kiss, we think,
A baby's feet.

A Century of Roundels (1883)

Pale, beyond porch and portal,
Crowned with calm leaves, she stands
Who gathers all things mortal
With cold immortal hands.

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,
Such fleet things sweet!

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.

Under the Microscope (1872)

Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee.

The Heptalogia (1880)

On the mountains of memory, by the world's wellsprings,
In all men's eyes,
Where the light of the life of him is on all past things,
Death only dies.

And soft as lips that laugh and hide
The laughing leaves of the tree divide,
And screen from seeing and leave in sight
The god pursuing, the maiden hid.

Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.

Tale of Balen (1896)

Love, as is told by the seers of old,
Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

O slain and spent and sacrificed
People, the grey-grown speechless Christ.

Songs before Sunrise (1871)

Ah, thy beautiful hair! so was it once braided for me, for me;
Now for death is it crowned, only for death, lover and lord of thee.

God by God flits past in thunder, till His glories turn to shades;
God to God bears wondering witness how His gospel flames and fades.

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

Songs before Sunrise (1871)

We shift and bedeck and bedrape us,
Thou art noble and nude and antique.

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

Stately, kindly, lordly friend
Condescend
Here to sit by me.

Astrophel and Other Poems (1894)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Algernon Charles Swinburne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.