Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)A gifted poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, Algernon Charles Swinburne created late Victorian works that were controversial and groundbreaking, establishing his name as an imaginative innovator of his very own poetic forms, whilst achieving notoriety due to his scandalous lifestyle. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works and plays of Swinburne, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Swinburne's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other texts * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Features rare posthumous poems available nowhere else * the complete verse dramas, with individual contents tables * Includes Swinburne's only complete novel, LOVE’S CROSS-CURRENTS - appearing here for the first time on eReaders * Features Gosse’s seminal 1917 biography on the great poet, available in no other collection - discover Swinburne's literary life * A selection of non-fiction * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections ATALANTA IN CALYDON POEMS AND BALLADS (FIRST SERIES) SONGS OF TWO NATIONS SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE ERECHTHEUS POEMS AND BALLADS (SECOND SERIES) POEMS AND BALLADS. (THIRD SERIES) SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES STUDIES IN SONG TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE SONNETS SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS (1590-1650) A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY AND OTHER POEMS A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS THE HEPTALOGIA THE TALE OF BALEN A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS POSTHUMOUS AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Verse Dramas THE QUEEN MOTHER ROSAMOND CHASTELARD BOTHWELL MARY STUART MARINO FALIERO LOCRINE THE SISTERS ROSAMUND, QUEEN OF THE LOMBARDS THE DUKE OF GANDIA The Novel LOVE’S CROSS-CURRENTS Selected Non-Fiction WILLIAM BLAKE: A CRITICAL ESSAY THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE The Biography THE LIFE OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by Edmund Gosse Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles |
Contents
Flowers on flowers that the whole worlds bowers may show not | |
Rosy grey or as fiery spray fullplumed or greener than emerald | |
All the reefs and islands all the lawns and highlands clothed with | |
THE HEPTALOGIA | |
The house accurst with cursing sealed and signed | |
THE TALE OF BALEN | |
Dreams that show what we fain would know and know not save | |
For counsel or for comfort | |
SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE | |
But the morning of manhood is risen and the shadowless soul is | |
ye shall live | |
ERECHTHEUS | |
POEMS AND BALLADS SECOND SERIES | |
POEMS AND BALLADS THIRD SERIES | |
SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES | |
STUDIES IN SONG | |
In the clash of my boughs with each other ye hear the waves sound | |
Round the hills whose heights the firstborn oliveblossom | |
Up from under earth again a light that long since lightened | |
TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE | |
SONNETS | |
SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS 15901650 | |
A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY AND OTHER POEMS | |
A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS | |
frame | |
ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS | |
casting | |
Death more proud than the kings heads bowed before him | |
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS | |
POSTHUMOUS AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS | |
the | |
As a poor man hungering stands with insatiate eyes and hands | |
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER | |
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER | |
The Verse Dramas | |
Here across the gardenwall can I hear strange children call | |
Farewell dear father | |
Enter MARY BEATON and MARY CARMICHAEL | |
MARY BEATON | |
This? for two must part | |
Here the sights we saw together moved his fancy like a feather | |
And my foliage rings round him and rustles and branches are bent | |
MARY BEATON | |
PARIS | |
III | |
HERRIES | |
Now to wonder and thereafter to the sunny storm of laughter | |
Where help is none to borrow | |
QUEEN | |
Seen of eyes yet bright from heaven for the lips that laughed | |
One that was at first | |
Yes my heart I know | |
No more need of germs | |
Yes but you now look | |
Your soul fit to damn? | |
VI | |
ON THE SANDS | |
No She did not mean | |
She lay out before him there | |
overturned the | |
Had she but wings and she would not | |
Common terms and phrases
Algernon Charles Swinburne ALTHAEA ANTIPHONE Atalanta bird bitter blind blood born breast breath bright brows burn Calydon child CHORUS CHTHONIA crown darkness dawn dead death deep dreams ears earth ERECHTHEUS EUMOLPUS face fair fear feet fire flame flowers foam fruit give glad glory God’s godhead gods gold grace green grief hair hast thou hath head hear heart heaven hope hour king kiss Lady of Pain land laugh life’s light lighten lips live lord love’s lyre man’s MELEAGER men’s mother mouth night OENEUS pain praise PRAXITHEA rose round sake sea’s SEMICHORUS shadow shame sight sing skies slain sleep smite soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars storm strong sun’s sweet sword tears thee THÉOPHILE GAUTIER things thou art Thou hast thunder time’s Toxeus VICTOR HUGO wast waves weep wind wine wings word world’s