Poems and Ballads (third Series): Taken from the Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles: Swinburne—Vol. III
1889
Poems and Ballads (third Series): Taken from the Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles: Swinburne—Vol. III
1889
Swinburne writes poetry as if language itself were on fire. This third collection of Poems and Ballads, published in 1889, pulses with the same radical passion that made his earlier volumes scandalous and celebrated in Victorian England. Here, spring becomes a thundering ode to renewal in 'March: An Ode,' while 'The Commonweal' turns its gaze toward freedom and social justice with the kind of fierce conviction that made Swinburne both beloved and reviled. The collection moves through landscapes of desire, nature, and political hope with a musicality that owes as much to the medieval ballads he adored as to the classical tradition. These are poems written by a man who believed poetry should awaken the blood as much as the mind. For readers who have ever felt that verse should burn rather than merely illuminate, Swinburne remains essential reading.
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“Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not some fiery memory of his breath Lie sweet on lips that touch the lips of death? Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;Love me no more, but love my love of thee. Love where thou wilt, and live thy life; and I, One thing I can, and one love cannot”
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
“She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where.Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care. ””
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Fierce midnights and famishing morrows, And the loves that complete and control All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows That wear out the soul.””
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Out of Dindymus heavily laden Her lions draw bound and unfed A mother, a mortal, a maiden, A queen over death and the dead. She is cold, and her habit is lowly, Her temple of branches and sods; Most fruitful and virginal, holy, A mother of gods. She hath wasted with fire thine high places, She hath hidden and marred and made sad The fair limbs of the Loves, the fair faces Of gods that were goodly and glad. She slays, and her hands are not bloody; She moves as a moon in the wane, White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy, Our Lady of Pain.””
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust.””
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Time and the Gods are at strife; ye dwell in the midst thereof,Draining a little life from the barren breasts of love.””
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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