Though they be Ill rulers of this household, be not thou Too swift to strike ere time be ripe to strike, Nor then by darkling stroke, against them: I Have erred, who thought by wrong to vanquish wrong, To smite by violence violence, ...
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Swinburne's poetry often contains motifs of time, death, and the ocean, as well as references to historical figures including Sappho, Catullus, and Anactoria. “Ave Atque Vale” will appeal to poetry lovers and is not to be missed by ...
Cf. Baudelaire's 'Lesbos'. 45. It is enough: S. contradicts Baudelaire's poem 'Sed Non Satiata'. 59ff. Cf. Baudelaire's 'La Géante'. 120-21. Orestes laid a lock of his own hair on the tomb of Agamemnon, his murdered father. 129.
... and final estimate of the more special element or peculiar quality in the intellectual force of Honori de Balzac could only have been taken by the inevitable intuition and rendered by the subtlest eloquence of Charles Baudelaire.
Also included are generous passages from the best of Swinburne's five-act tragedies, which have not been reprinted for nearly a century. Above all, this book is designed to make Swinburne, once again, a poet to be read widely for pleasure.
Tristram of Lyonesse is a long epic poem written by the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, that recounts in grand fashion the famous medieval story of the ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde (Tristram and Iseult in Swinburne's ...
We Love Flowers: Classic Poems about Blossoms
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Les Fleurs Du Mal and Other Studies
The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne . 20 vols . London : Heinemann , 1925–27 . Harrison , Antony H. Swinburne's Medievalism : A Study in Victorian Love Poetry . Baton Rouge : LSU Press , 1988 . Haynes , Kenneth , ed .
A Study of Shakespeare
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