The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project: Contents
Works by Swinburne
- [Epigraph: Eur. Fr. Mel. 20 (537)]
- [Dedication: “To the Memory of Walter Savage Landor”]
- The Argument
- The Persons
- [Epigraph: Aesch. Cho. 602-612.]
- [I. Prologue. Spoken by Chief Huntsman.]
- [II. Parados. “When the hounds of Spring…”]
- [III. Episode I. Althaea tells the story of the boar, and the story of Meleager’s birth; she speaks of the coming of Atalanta, and of her son’s passion, as the final revenge of Artemis, and inveighs against the implacability of the gods.]
- [IV. Stasimon I. Chorus: “Before the beginning of years.”]
- [V. Episode II. Meleager and his mother: dialogue on the conflict between love and duty.]
- [VI. Stasimon II. Chorus: “We have seen thee, O Love”; Hymn to Venus Anadyomene.]
- [VII. Episode III. Atalanta, Toxeus, and Plexippus enter. Departure for the hunt.]
- [VIII. Stasimon III. Chorus: “Who hath given men speech”; Revolt against the gods.]
- [IX. Episode IV. Herald announces the death of the boar.]
- [X. Stasimon IV. Chorus: “Oh, that I now”; Hymn to Artemis.]
- [XI. Episode V. First messenger announces the murder of Toxeus and Plexippus. Althaea retires to the palace to burn the brand.]
- [XII. Stasimon V. Chorus: “Not as with the sundering of the earth”—the suddenness of fate.]
- [XIII. Episode VI. Re-entry of Althaea, having thrust the brand into the flames.]
- [XIV. Stasimon VI. Semi-chorus: “She has filled with sighing the city.”]
- [XV. Episode VII. Second messenger announces the approach of the dying Meleager.]
- [XVI. Kommos. Melic passage between Meleager and the chorus.]
- [XVII. Exodos. Farewell and death of Meleager.]
- [XIII. Epilogue. Chorus: “Who shall contend with his lords.” (75-76)]
- A Ballad of Life
- A Ballad of Death
- Laus Veneris
- Phaedra
- The Triumph of Time
- Les Noyades
- A Leave-Taking
- Itylus
- Anactoria
- Hymn to Proserpine
- Ilicet
- Hermaphroditus
- Fragoletta
- Rondel
- Satia te Sanguine
- A Litany
- A Lamentation
- Anima Anceps
- In the Orchard
- A Match
- Faustine
- A Cameo
- Song Before Death
- Rococo
- Stage Love
- The Leper
- A Ballad of Burdens
- Rondel
- Before the Mirror
- Erotion
- In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
- A Song in Time of Order. 1852
- A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
- To Victor Hugo
- Before Dawn
- Dolores
- The Garden of Proserpine
- Hesperia
- Love at Sea
- April
- Before Parting
- The Sundew
- FĂ©lise
- An Interlude
- Hendecasyllabics
- Sapphics
- At Eleusis
- August
- A Christmas Carol
- The Masque of Queen Bersabe
- St. Dorothy
- The Two Dreams
- Aholibah
- Love and Sleep
- Madonna Mia
- The King's Daughter
- After Death
- May Janet
- The Bloody Son
- The Sea-Swallows
- The Year of Love
- Dedication, 1865
- Dedication to Joseph Mazzini
- Prelude
- The Eve of Revolution
- A Watch in the Night
- Super Flumina Babylonis
- The Halt before Rome
- Mentana: First Anniversary
- Blessed among Women
- The Litany of Nations
- Hertha
- Before a Crucifix
- Tenebrae
- Hymn of Man
- The Pilgrims
- Armand Barbés
- Quia Multum Amavit
- Genesis
- To Walt Whitman in America
- Christmas Antiphones
- A New Year's Message
- Mater Dolorosa
- Mater Triumphalis
- A Marching Song
- Siena
- Cor Cordium
- In San Lorenzo
- Tiresias
- The Song of the Standard
- On the Downs
- Messidor
- Ode on the Insurrection in Candia
- “Non Dolet”
- Eurydice
- An Appeal
- Perinde ac Cadaver
- Monotones
- The Oblation
- A Year's Burden
- Epilogue
- Preface
- Victor Hugo: L’Homme Qui Rit
- Victor Hugo: L’Année Terrible
- The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Morris’s Life and Death of Jason
- Matthew Arnold’s New Poems
- Notes on the Text of Shelley
- Byron
- Coleridge
- John Ford
- Notes on Designs of the Old Masters at Florence
- Notes on some Pictures 1868
- [Epigraphs]
- [Dedication]
- Persons
- [I. Prologue: The prayer of Erechtheus.]
- [II. Parode: “Sun that hast lightened and loosed by thy might—”]
- [III. Stasimon I: “A noise has arisen against us of waters—”]
- [IV. Episode 1: Erechtheus, Praxithea and Chorus.]
- [V. Stasimon 2: “He hath uttered too surely his wrath not obscurely—”]
- [VI. Episode 2: Chthonia, Praxithea and Chorus.]
- [VII. Stasimon 3: “Out of the North wind grief came forth—”]
- [VIII. Episode 3: Herald of Eumolpus, Chorus and Erechtheus.]
- [IX. Stasimon 4: “Who shall put a bridle in the mourner’s lips to chasten them.”]
- [X. First Commos: Chthonia, Praxithea and Chorus.]
- [XI. Episode 4: Chthonia, Praxithea and Chorus.]
- [XII. Second Commos: Chthonia and Chorus.]
- [XIII. Stasimon 5: “Many loves of many a mood and many a kind—”]
- [XIV. Episode 5: Messenger-choral interlude Messenger.]
- [XV. Stasimon 6: “Ill thoughts breed fear—” ]
- [XVI. Episode 6: Athenian Herald, Chorus and Praxithea, ]
- [XVII. Stasimon 7: “From the cup of my heart I pour through my lips along—” ]
- [XVIII. Episode 7: Athene and Praxithea.]
- [XIX. Exode: “From the depths of the springs of my spirit—”]
- The Last Oracle
- In the Bay
- A Forsaken Garden
- Relics
- At a Month's End
- Sestina
- The Year of the Rose
- A Wasted Vigil
- The Complaint of Lisa
- For the Feast of Giordano Bruno,
- Ave Atque Vale
- Memorial Verses on the Death of Théophile Gautier
- Sonnet (with a Copy of
- Age and Song (to Barry Cornwall)
- In Memory of Barry Cornwall
- Epicede
- To Victor Hugo
- Inferiae
- A Birth-Song
- Ex-voto
- A Ballad of Dreamland
- Cyril Tourneur
- A Ballad of François Villon
- Pastiche
- Before Sunset
- Song
- A Vision of Spring in Winter
- Choriambics
- At Parting
- A Song in Season
- Two Leaders
- Victor Hugo in 1877
- Child's Song
- Triads
- Four Songs of Four Seasons
- The White Czar
- Rizpah
- To Louis Kossuth
- Translations from the French of Villon
- From Victor Hugo
- Nocturne
- Théophile Gautier
- Ode
- In Obitum Theophili Poetae
- Ad Catullum
- Dedication
- Song for the Centenary of Walter Savage Landor
- Grand Chorus of Birds from Aristophanes
- Off Shore
- After Nine Years
- For a Portrait of Felice Orsini
- Evening on the Broads
- The Emperor's Progress
- The Resurrection of Alcilia
- The Fourteenth of July
- The Launch of the Livadia
- Six Years Old
- A Parting Song
- By the North Sea
- Tristram of Lyonesse
- Athens: An Ode
- The Statue of Victor Hugo
- Hope and Fear
- After Sunset
- A Study from Memory
- To Dr. John Brown
- To William Bell Scott
- A Death on Easter Day
- On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot
- After Looking into Carlyle's Reminiscences
- A Last Look
- Dickens
- On Lamb's Specimens of Dramatic Poets
- To John Nichol
- Dysthanatos
- Euonymos
- On the Russian Persecution of the Jews
- Bismarck At Canossa
- Quia Nominor Leo
- The Channel Tunnel
- Sir William Gomm
- Euthanatos
- First and Last
- Lines on the Death of Edward John Trelawny
- Adieux Ă Marie Stuart
- Herse
- Twins
- The Salt of the Earth
- Seven Years Old
- Eight Years Old
- Comparisons
- What is Death?
- A Child's Pity
- A Child's Laughter
- A Child's Thanks
- A Child's Battles
- A Child's Future
- Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650)
- A Dark Month
- Sunrise
- Dedication to Christina G. Rossetti
- In Harbour
- The Way of the Wind
- Had I Wist
- Recollections
- Time and Life
- A Dialogue
- Plus Ultra
- A Dead Friend
- Past Days
- Autumn and Winter
- The Death of Richard Wagner
- Two Preludes
- The Lute and the Lyre
- Plus Intra
- Change
- A Baby's Death
- One of Twain
- Death and Birth
- Birth and Death
- Benediction
- Étude Réaliste
- Babyhood
- First Footsteps
- A Ninth Birthday
- Not a Child
- To Dora Dorian
- The Roundel
- At Sea
- Wasted Love
- Before Sunset
- A Singing Lesson
- Flower-Pieces
- Three Faces
- Eros
- Sorrow
- Sleep
- On an Old Roundel
- A Landscape by Courbet
- A Flower-Piece by Fantin
- A Night-Piece by Millet
- “Marzo Pazzo”
- Dead Love
- Discord
- Concord
- Mourning
- Aperotos Eros
- To Catullus
- “Insularum Ocelle”
- In Sark
- In Guernsey
- Envoi
- A Midsummer Holiday
- A New-Year Ode
- Lines on the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini
- Les Casquets
- A Ballad of Sark
- Nine Years Old
- After a Reading
- Maytime in Midwinter
- A Double Ballad of August
- Heartsease Country
- A Ballad of Appeal
- Cradle Songs
- Pelagius
- Louis Blanc
- Vos Deos Laudamus
- On the Bicentenary of Corneille
- In Sepulcretis
- Love and Scorn
- On the Death of Richard Doyle
- In Memory of Henry A. Bright
- A Solitude
- Victor Hugo: L'archipel de la Manche
- The Twilight of the Lords
- Clear the Way!
- A Word for the Country
- A Word for the Nation
- A Word for the Psalmist
- A Ballad at Parting
- March: An Ode
- The Commonweal
- The Armada
- To a Seamew
- Pan and Thalassius
- A Ballad of Bath
- In A Garden
- A Rhyme
- Baby-Bird
- Olive
- A Word with the Wind
- Neap-Tide
- By the Wayside
- Night
- In Time of Mourning
- The Interpreters
- The Recall
- By Twilight
- A Baby's Epitaph
- On the Death of Sir Henry Taylor
- In Memory of John William Inchbold
- New Year's Day
- To Sir Richard F. Burton
- Nell Gwyn
- Caliban on Ariel
- The Weary Wedding
- The Winds
- A Lyke-Wake Song
- A Reiver's Neck-Verse
- The Witch-Mother
- The Bride's Tragedy
- A Jacobite's Farewell
- A Jacobite's Exile
- The Tyneside Widow
- Dedication
- Astrophel
- A Nympholept
- On the South Coast
- An Autumn Vision
- A Swimmer's Dream
- Grace Darling
- Loch Torridon
- The Palace of Pan
- A Year's Carols
- England: An Ode
- Eton: An Ode
- The Union
- East to West
- Inscriptions For the Four Sides of a Pedestal
- On the Death of Richard Burton
- Elegy
- A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
- Sunset and Moonrise
- Birthday Ode
- Threnody
- The Ballad of Melicertes
- Au Tombeau de Banville
- Light: An Epicede
- Threnody
- A Dirge
- A Reminiscence
- Via Dolorosa
- In Memory of Aurelio Saffi
- The Festival of Beatrice
- The Monument of Giordano Bruno
- Life in Death
- Epicede
- Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott
- An Old Saying
- A Moss-Rose
- To a Cat
- Hawthorn Dyke
- The Brothers
- Jacobite Song
- The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay
- Dedication
- A Channel Passage
- The Lake of Gaube
- The Promise of the Hawthorn
- Hawthorn Tide
- The Passing of the Hawthorn
- To a Baby Kinswoman
- The Altar of the Righteousness
- A New Year's Eve
- In a Rosary
- The High Oaks
- Barking Hall: A Year After
- Music: An Ode
- The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile
- Trafalgar Day
- Cromwell's Statue
- A Word for the Navy
- Northumberland
- Stratford-On-Avon
- Burns: An Ode
- The Commonweal
- The Question
- Apostasy
- Russia: An Ode
- For Greece and Crete
- Delphic Hymn to Apollo
- A New Century
- An Evening at Vichy
- To George Frederick Watts
- On the Death of Mrs. Lynn Linton
- In Memory of Aurelio Saffi
- Carnot
- After the Verdict
- The Transvaal
- Reverse
- The Turning of the Tide
- On the Death of Colonel Benson
- Astraea Victrix
- The First of June
- Roundel
- A Roundel of Rabelais
- Lucifer
- The Centenary of Alexandre Dumas
- At a Dog's Grave
- Three Weeks Old
- A Clasp of Hands
- Prologue to Doctor Faustus
- Prologue to Arden of Feversham
- Prologue to Old Fortunatus
- Prologue to the Duchess of Malfy
- Prologue to the Revenger's Tragedy
- Prologue to the Broken Heart
- Prologue to a Very Woman
- Prologue to the Spanish Gipsy
- Prologue to the Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Afterglow of Shakespeare
- Dedication
- [dedication]
- Prologue
- I. Lady Midhurst to Mrs. Radworth
- II. Mrs. Radworth to Francis Cheyne
- III. Lady Midhurst to Lady Cheyne
- IV. Francis Cheyne to Mrs. Radworth
- V. Lady Cheyne to Francis Cheyne
- VI. Lady Midhurst to Reginald Harewood
- VII. Reginald Harewood to Edward Audley
- VIII. Francis Cheyne to Mrs. Radworth
- IX. Lady Midhurst to Lady Cheyne
- X. Lady Midhurst to Lady Cheyne
- XI. Reginald Harewood to Mrs. Radworth
- XII. Mrs. Radworth to Reginald Harewood
- XIII. Francis Cheyne to Lady Cheyne
- XIV. Lady Midhurst to Reginald Harewood
- XV. Lady Cheyne to Francis
- XVI. Mrs. Radworth to Lady Midhurst
- XVII. Lady Midhurst to Lady Cheyne
- XVIII. Lady Midhurst to Francis Cheyne
- XIX. Francis Cheyne to Mrs. Radworth
- XX. Reginald Harewood to Lady Cheyne
- XXI. Lady Midhurst to Mrs. Radworth
- XXII. Captain Harewood to Reginald
- XXIII. Francis Cheyne to Mrs. Radworth
- XXIV. Lady Cheyne to Mrs. Radworth
- XXV. Reginald Harewood to Edward Audley
- XXVI. Lady Cheyne to Reginald Harewood
- XXVII. Reginald Harewood to Mrs. Radworth
- XXVIII. Lady Midhurst to Mrs. Radworth
- XXIX. Francis Cheyne to Lady Midhurst
- XXX. Lady Midhurst to Lady Cheyne
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Poems and Ballads, First Series (1866)
Songs Before Sunrise (1871)
Essays and Studies (1875)
Erechtheus (1876)
Poems and Ballads, Second Series (1878)
Studies in Song (1880)
Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems (1882)
A Century of Roundels (1883)
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems (1884)
Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889)
Astrophel and Other Poems (1894)
A Channel Passage and Other Poems (1904)
Love’s Cross Currents: A Year’s Letters (1905)