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THE CLIFFSIDE PATH from kendrive ^Pro 3 days old

I am continuing Swinburne's "From a A Summer Holiday" with this work which earlier this year was chosen as "Poem of the Week" by the Guardian, where ...

THE SEABOARD from kendrive ^Pro 4 days old

Swinburne wrote a series of poems under the title "A Midsummer Holiday" and here is the first. The poet is walking along the seashore and, I think, ...

THE TIME OF LOVERS IS SHORT from kendrive ^Pro 7 days old

Today's poem has nine verses and I feel it is overlong for posting here in its entirety. Many blog readers are impatient and they are deterred by Swinburne's ...

SOFT, SMALL AND SWEET from kendrive ^Pro 8 days old

A CLASP OF HANDS Soft, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers That bask in heavenly heat When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers, Soft, small, ...

PUT IN THE SICKLES AND REAP from kendrive ^Pro 9 days old

This is one of Swinburne's longer poems. It is about gathering in the corn at harvest time. Or is it? I suggest that is a metaphor for war and the ...

WHEN IT'S GONE, IT'S GONE from kendrive ^Pro 11 days old

DEAD LOVE Dead love, by treason slain, lies stark, White as a dead stark-stricken dove: None that pass by him pause to mark Dead love. His heart, ...

TRAVELS IN ITALY from kendrive ^Pro 13 days old

Swinburne takes us to three Italian cities. THREE FACES I. VENTIMIGLIA The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank: Down the one steep street, ...

ROBERT BROWNING from kendrive ^Pro 15 days old

Robert Browning, the English poet and playwright, was born in Camberwell, London in 1812. He died at his son's home 'Ca' Rezzonico' in Venice in 1889, ...

WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES OFF TO DREAM AND YEARN from kendrive ^Pro 16 days old

HOPE AND FEAR Beneath the shadow of dawn's aërial cope, With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere, Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer ...

LOVE, SLEEP AND DEATH GO TO THE SWEET SAME TUNE from kendrive ^Pro 17 days old

Here is one of Swinburne's longer romantic poems. I am sorry I couldn't find an illustration of an orchard in moonlight. You will just have to imagine ...