Songs Before Sunrise

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

39 chapters5h 8mEnglish1917

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This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian struggle for unification. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (39)

1Dedication to Joseph Mazzini

146

2Prelude

578

3The Eve of Revolution

1991

4A watch in the Night

619

5Super Flumina Babylonis

411

6The halt before Rome

852

7Mentana - First Anniversary

256

8Blessed among Women

599

9The Litany of Nations

602

10Hertha

742

11Before a Crucifix

707

12Tenebrae

435

13Hymn of Man

1332

14The Pilgrims

345

15Armand Barbès

119

16Quia Multum Amavit

499

17Genesis

310

18To Walt Whitman in America

439

19Christmas Antiphones

530

20A New Year’s Message

155

21Mater Dolorosa

300

22Mater Triumphalis

549

23A Marching Song

568

24Siena

252

25Cor Cordium

26In San Lorenzo

27Tiresias

1143

28The Song of the Standard

248

29On the Downs

445

30Messidor

234

31Ode on the Insurrection in Candia

667

32Non Dolet

33Eurydice

34An Appeal

239

35Perinde ac Cadaver

305

36Monotones

141

37The Oblation

38A Year’s Burden

308

39Epilogue

1034

Songs Before Sunrise

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