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Subject: SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837-1909)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SINGER ASLEEP, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea
Last Line: Upon the capes and chines.
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: All earth is a poet
Last Line: Of the munificent ear.
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS: 'MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB': 5. SWINBURNE, by A. C. WILKIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair
Last Line: And a pet as white as its mistress was fair.
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy white shafts and the golden
Last Line: Our lady of gain.
Subject(s): Materialism; Oxford University; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); United States; America


FELO DE SE; WITH APOLOGIES TO SWINBURNE, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For repose I have sighed and have struggled; have sigh'd and have struggled ...
Last Line: They have passed away like the smoke, here is nothing but pain and I.
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


HOME, SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS: 2. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As sea-foam blown of the winds, as blossom of brine that is drifted
Last Line: Oh, give us a rest!
Subject(s): Payne, John Howard (1791-1852); Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


LAUS MELPOMINES, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! God, they mock me, all the deaths that be
Last Line: Treads in its wake, leaves me less heart to praise
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


MAGDALEN (AFTER SWINBURNE), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hath done what she could'
Last Line: "she hath done what she could."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


OCTOPUS, by ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed
Last Line: And bite us again!
Subject(s): Octopuses; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He trod the earth but yesterday
Last Line: Sappho's forgotten songs are falling on his ears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


PERSONAL SONNET: TO ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not since proud marlowe poured his potent song
Last Line: All hearts are thrilled; all nations hushed to hear!
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


SISTER SWALLOW TO SWINBURNE, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swinburne, old swinburne, silly old swinburne
Last Line: Is our lust to maintain territorial rights %with a barrage of bellicose screams
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


SWINBURNE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How far soe'er thou wanderest from his law
Last Line: Than thou. That singest of the worst so well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


SWINBURNE: END OF THE CENTURY, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was deduced in my mind quite early
Last Line: And lead her enormous beauty from the resting arms of night
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


THE MAD, MAD MUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rhyme o' the raggedy man's 'at's best
Last Line: Tickle me, love, in me lonesome ribs!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): The Lugubrious Whing-whang
Subject(s): Fantasy; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


THE POETS AT TEA: 3. SWINBURNE, WHO LET IT GET COLD, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sin that was sweet in the sinning
Last Line: And take it away!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Tea


THRENODY ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE, by CLIFFORD BAX    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never again, o poet passionate-hearted
Subject(s): Death; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Dead, The


TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH A FIRST EDITION OF ATALANTA IN CALYDON, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At your pleasure here I hold
Last Line: Possibly, ambassador!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)