A Channel Passage and other poems
By
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne--Vol VI
THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
VOL. VI
A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY: ASTROPHEL: A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER TALES
SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS
I. POEMS AND BALLADS (First Series).
II. SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE, AND SONGS OF TWO NATIONS.
III. POEMS AND BALLADS (Second and Third Series), and SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES.
IV. TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE, THE TALE OF BALEN, ATALANTA IN CALYDON, ERECHTHEUS.
V. STUDIES IN SONG, A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS, SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, THE HEPTALOGIA, ETC.
VI. A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY, ASTROPHEL, A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY: ASTROPHEL: A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
By
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1917
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
_First printed_ (_Chatto_), 1904
_Reprinted_ 1904, '09, '10, '12
(_Heinemann_), 1917
_London: William Heinemann_, 1917
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
PAGE
A CHANNEL PASSAGE 279
THE LAKE OF GAUBE 284
THE PROMISE OF THE HAWTHORN 288
HAWTHORN TIDE 289
THE PASSING OF THE HAWTHORN 296
TO A BABY KINSWOMAN 297
THE ALTAR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 301
A NEW YEAR'S EVE 321
IN A ROSARY 324
THE HIGH OAKS 326
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Channel Passage and Other Poems by Swinburne
- 2: A Channel Passage and Other Poems by Swinburne
- 3: Lovelier if aught may be lovelier than stars
- 4: Where life was in lustrous tune
- 5: And were wellnigh fain
- 6: All sense of the soul's life rapture
- 7: From reluctance enkindled to rapture
- 8: Beholden of hope and of memory in sunshine and rain
- 9: One sweet glad hawthorn smiles as it shrinks under shelter
- 10: Dares not call thee motherless
- 11: No subsistence of a change unstricken shrine
- 12: Unspoken of tongues and unwritten of hands
- 13: O light that was quenched of priests
- 14: And the hollow of hell from beneath shone
- 15: Yet might not slay the soul's desire
- 16: Rings now as the thunders of Jewry
- 17: Fire sublime as lightning shines
- 18: Still the rosary lives and shines on memory
- 19: Half the sun's bright speech is heard
- 20: Brood in the branching shadows of the trees
- 21: Lived not surely till music spake
- 22: He can but follow fame where Nelson led
- 23: While faction is grappling with faction
- 24: Take now but thy strengths to thee straightway
- 25: Stratford is thine and England's
- 26: The daisy by his ploughshare cleft
- 27: Which replaces just and blameless men in place
- 28: The dower that freedom brings the slave She weds
- 29: To bid the bells of concord chime
- 30: To veer is not to veer when votes are weighed
- 31: Hope sickens with delay Smite
- 32: Armed of Greece was always very man and very God
- 33: As once we heard the music that haply he Hears
- 34: Has passed now forth of shadow by sunlight bound
- 35: IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI Beloved above all nations
- 36: And her sun drank up her foes like dew
- 37: Ashamed of shame and strong in mercy
- 38: Peace with pride in righteous work well done
- 39: By godlike love of sunlike truth
- 40: III Two flower soft fists of conquering clutch
- 41: PROLOGUE TO DOCTOR FAUSTUS Light
- 42: Rend and consume the soul in strife sublime
- 43: PROLOGUE TO THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY Fire
- 44: And shuddered through the lustrous gloom
- 45: Arose above their quiring spheres a third
- 46: All love that lightens through the cloud of chance
- 47: Their coffin lids and grave clothings
- 48: The lips of men are harsh for drouth
- 49: Mightier than death which divides us