About this book
A collection of poems by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, first published in 1904 and dedicated to the artist and designer William Morris. The first poem is a tribute to the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney and his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters (41)
1Astrophel
2A Nympholept
3On the South Coast
4An Autumn Vision
5A Swimmer's Dream
6Grace Darling
7Loch Torridon
8The Palace of Pan
9A Year's Carols
10England: an Ode
11Eton: an Ode
12The Union
13East to West
14Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal
15On the Death of Richard Burton
16Elegy
17A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
18Sunset and Moonrise
19Birthday Ode
20Threnody
21The Ballad of Melicertes
22Au Tombeau de Banville
23Light: an Epicide
24Threnody
25A Dirge
26A Reminicence
27Via Dolorosa
28In Memory of Aurelio Saffi
29The Festival of Beatrice
30The Monument of Giordano Bruno
31Life in Death
32Epicede
33Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott
34An Old Saying
35A Moss-Rose
36To a Cat
37Hawthorn Dyke
38The Brothers
39Jacobite Song
40The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay
41Dedication
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