Potential Titles: Algernon Charles Swinburne

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With cloud and tempest's blackening breath - Algernon Swinburne "Aperotos Eros"

With anguish for a wreath - Algernon Swinburne "Aperotos Eros"

In the chant of a home-faring crew - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"

And the heart in us echoes - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"

Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"

Time stoops to no man's lure - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"

Four apples on the bough - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Both lips grew dry with dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

The red moons wane to white - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Three hours before the moon - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

From the harvest's middle floor - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Between two dates of death - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

Wan with wrath of wind and rain - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

Who loved the lord of music - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

A herald soul before its master's flying - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"

Bitterer than a soundless tear - Algernon Swinburne "A Baby's Death"

Hid my heart in a nest of roses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Under the roses I hid my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Only the song of a secret bird - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Writ in the traveller's chart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

No hound's not wakens the wildwood hart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

A month or twain to live on honeycomb - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

But one tires of scented time - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

Where the wine's heart has burst - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

The bitter taste ensuing on the sweet - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

Each change of love in eyelids and eyebrows - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

Not yet worth patience to regret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

Redressing grief's worst wrongs - Algernon Swinburne "Benediction"

Bright as heaven's bare brow - Algernon Swinburne "Change"

From time's full-flowering bough - Algernon Swinburne "Change"

That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Weary of all but death - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

What shall my heart broken profit thee? - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

As my tears fill her bed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Though my leaves shut before the sunflower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

That live down here in shade - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Feeds his heart full of the day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Sleep with the world's eldest dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Vision vex me alive and dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Moving vision without form or breath - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Lost with her love in the underworld - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

If such sweet and bitter things be done - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

On a holy and a heavy day - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Fervent flower made fruitful from the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Time, with a gift of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

Dust of the labouring earth - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

A month without sight of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

On the twilight of older faces - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

A whole dead month in the dark - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Poured forth of immortal cups - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The golden vintage of Shakespeare - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Fires in the spheres of stars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

As keen as the heart of Mars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

And cowslips cold in his hands - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Clad all in mourning dresses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Dreams that strive to seem awake - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Divided from heaven and derided of dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The bones of one bare month - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Moved his fancy like a feather - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

To the sunny storm of laughter - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Why should May remember March - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The nights that a frost could fret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Nor yet September binds their hearts - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Reproving the heart that exults too loud - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Though love in your heart were brittle - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Between my work and my dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

In the dawn's rekindling urn - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

From the crowning star of the seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

With chant from the chorus of days - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Of days without crown - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The jubilant whirl of their dizzy dance - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Blended of wild spring's wildest of kin - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Strong as a wild swan's pinions - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Friend of hopes foregone - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Saw what none shall see anew - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Soul as clear as sunlit dew - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Love which promised truth - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Faith responds to love's regret - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

Harsh the yoke that binds them - Algernon Swinburne "Death and Birth"

Fountains of darkness and tempest and thunder - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

From heights where the soul would be - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

The spell of the mage of music - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

A vision of heaven from the hollows of ocean - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Out of the silence of things unknown - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

A terror and wonder whose core was joy - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

A passion of thought set free - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Some roof of wildwood tree - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"

When Time and strong Oblivion ask - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"

Cloud that darkens earth and sea - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"

Harsh time's imperious child - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

That wed strange hands together - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

The light from either's memory shed - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

A fire of heart untamed - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"

With shafts by thousands aimed - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"

Veiled by change that ebbs and flows - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"

Eyes full of dawning day - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"

Too blithe for song to say - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"

Where the sun's dart clove her - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: I. Love Lies Bleeding"

By the midsummer moon misguided - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: II. Love in a Mist'

For barley and rye are not clover - A.C. Swinburne "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell"

Ringed round with cliffs and moors - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Whose guard secures the heavenly bay - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Though sight be changed for memory - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

What new delight of waters - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Wild autumn exults in the wind - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Swift rapture and strong - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

A chant to the sea-tide's chorus - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

On Dante's track by some funereal spell - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Where earth's foundations crack - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

The secrets of the sepulchres of hell - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

A labyrinth walled and roofed with woe - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Have drunken of Lethe at length - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

As mourners clothed with regret - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

Close from the wind and at ease from the tide - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

A shrine where the sunlight serves - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

Of a song that outsang the lark - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

For the rapture of storm-spent eyes - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

Can June's fist grasp May? - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

When summer leaves grow false - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

Cards packed for storm's play - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

Flies caught in time's mesh - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

Still and glad of silence - Algernon Swinburne "A Landscape by Courbet"

The wind speaks only summer - Algernon Swinburne "A Landscape by Courbet"

Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

Over all old things and all things dear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

Though we sang as angels in her ear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

Full of blown sand and foam - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

Remembering days and words that were - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

As burns the passion of the rose - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

The yearning of the blossom toward the fruit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

Bring April forth as a bride to wed - Algernon Swinburne "Marzo Pazzo"

The dreamy decline of the dawn - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

Fainter with fear of the fires - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

Pale with the promise of pride - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

Mystical moods and triangular tenses - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

All the wrath of waking wind and sea - Algernon Swinburne "A Night-Piece by Millet"

Crossed and curdled wells and streams - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

With clarions blowing three times twice - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

With years and memories piled - Algernon Swinburne "Not a Child"

Rest, forget, be reconciled - Algernon Swinburne "Not a Child"

Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"

A wild dove lost in the whirling snow - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"

Night outspeeding light - Algernon Swinburne "One of Twain"

Such hopes as time discrowns - Algernon Swinburne "Past Days"

Fitful with supreme suspense - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Intra"

The goal of hope's surmises - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

To hide in yet more deep disguises - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

All the dreams that make him fearful - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

Thronging the ways of the wind - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"

The flames of remembered fires - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"

Paths that the moon of memory cheers - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"

With cunning of sound unsought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"

To hand in the ear of thought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"

Far-fetched and dear-bought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"

With possession of music unsought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"

No jealous god's mercies - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"

Through darkness naked and steep - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"

The gifts of his grace recover - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"

A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"

Eyes too proud to thank the sky and sea - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: I. Ventimiglia"

Out of the dark pure twilight - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: III. Venice"

Bloodred lines of loss and blame - Algernon Swinburne "Time and Life"

Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"

Before our lives divide for ever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Swift to fasten and swift to sever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Though the gods and the years relent - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Fruitless husk and fugitive flower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The dream foregone and the deed forborne - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Wine and bread without lees or leaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mother of loves and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mother of mutable winds and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Hope at highest and all her fruit - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Time at fullest and all his dower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The
Triumph of Time"

Dreams that smote with a keener dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

On the tender tongue of the little snakes - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Clasped and clothed in the cloven clay - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

In the dark with the dreams and the dews - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Struck through by the dream - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mixed into me as honey in wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Clothed with the light of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Dust and laurels and gold and sand - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Woven a veil for the weeping face - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Whose lips have drunken the wine of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The cold old crimes and the deeds thrown by - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Smiles of silver and kisses of gold - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The iron hollow of doubtful heaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The swords in my heart for one were seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Splendid summer and perfume and pride - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Subtle and cruel of heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The sound of time, the rhyme of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Wrecked hope and passionate pain - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The music burning at heart like wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

All senses mixed in the spirit's cup - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"

Shows the swallow the wind's way - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"

To the haven where each would be - Algernon Charles Swinburne "White Butterflies"


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