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Various Poems:
Athens: An Ode
The Statue of Victor Hugo
Euthanatos
First and Last
Lines on the Death of Edward John Trelawny
Adieux à Marie Stuart
Herse
Twins
The Salt of the Earth
Seven Years Old
Eight Years Old
Comparisons
What is Death?
A Child's Pity
A Child's Laughter
A Child's Thanks
A Child's Battles
A Child's Future
Sunrise
By
Algernon Charles Swinburne
TAKEN FROM
THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLESSWINBURNE—VOL V
THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
VOL. V
STUDIES IN SONG: A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS: SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATICPOETS: THE HEPTALOGIA: ETC.
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
STUDIES IN SONG: A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS: SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATICPOETS: THE HEPTALOGIA: ETC.