poetry
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THE TIME OF LOVERS IS SHORT from kendrive Pro 9 hours 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 ...
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SOFT, SMALL AND SWEET from kendrive Pro 1 day old
[ ... ] you like poetry, you may enjoy my new blog, where I am currently posting poems on the theme of "Dreams and Dreaming". You will find it at: ...
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PUT IN THE SICKLES AND REAP from kendrive Pro 2 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 ...
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CLEO from kendrive Pro 3 days old
A long poem by Swinburne. I could have said it all in just five words "By God - She is beautiful". CLEOPATRA Her mouth is fragrant as a vine, A ...
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WHEN IT'S GONE, IT'S GONE from kendrive Pro 4 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, ...
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NOW I GO ALONE from kendrive Pro 5 days old
PAST DAYS I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies the blown foam's feather, Dead ...
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TRAVELS IN ITALY from kendrive Pro 6 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, ...
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DOWN THROUGH DARKNESS from kendrive Pro 7 days old
SLEEP Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover Wails that sorrow should always keep Watch, nor see in the gloom above her Sleep, Down, through ...
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ROBERT BROWNING from kendrive Pro 8 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, ...
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WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES OFF TO DREAM AND YEARN from kendrive Pro 9 days old
HOPE AND FEAR Beneath the shadow of dawn's a๋rial cope, With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere, Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer ...
