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Swinburne Poems

Clerihew Swinburne

...Algernon Charles Swinburne 
with intricate poetry did earn
He loved to alliterate 
& lyrical verse to create...

Categories: swinburne, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Still Same :: Swinburne Poem Form

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Yes, I suffer, each night.
After sunset
alone spent time in fright,
makes me upset.
Tell me, why do you blame?
Your acts gave a bad name.
Why you try to defame? I can't forge...

Categories: swinburne, love,
Form: Verse

Ordinary Love, a Villanelle

...Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug the coverlet where once we la...

Categories: swinburne, love, marriage, relationship, wife,
Form: Villanelle

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Reverie

...Swinburne form

Suspended on a hilltop,
I sit in reverie
considering my future.
How life is just a vapor,
yet worlds continue nonstop. 
Is this how things must be?
Suspended on a hilltop,
I ...

Categories: swinburne, destiny, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Translation of Eric Mottram's the Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull By T Wignesan

...Translation of Eric Mottram's The Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull by T. Wignesan

Excerpts from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s ...

Categories: swinburne, america, french, memory, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Prince of Sweet Songs

...PRINCE OF SWEET SONGS


"Prince of sweet songs made out of tears and fire......" ( A Ballad of  François Villon:Envoi-A.C. SWINBURNE)





The prince showed up in the terrace

Looked skywa...

Categories: swinburne, bird, song, sorrow, star,
Form: Haiku

A Letter To John Keats

...Dear John,

A unique Epitaph you, yourself, penned so well

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water”

Though many have misunderstood your epitaph.
Which means “ Fame and indeed life is fleeting”
...

Categories: swinburne, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Little Apollo Eolian

...With what words doth ye describe

   thy deep soul,

   little Eolian, Apollo?

What ask of me thy plea,

   poesy 'darling' to see;

With prim pleasure as a painter

   (druid) so brown ...

Categories: swinburne, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Spring Light

...The light that loses, the night that wins
And time remembered is grief forgotten
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
and in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begi...

Categories: swinburne, beautiful, change, flower, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Paradise Lost Or Enterprise: the Bus Ride, the Vessel -- Itemized

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caught short singly
one rainwrote morning in hyannisport
when snows a science
over iceroof and snowfloor beachsand and
eastersundaysun a milton shadow opportunity
opposite sleeping you...

Categories: swinburne, travel,
Form: Free verse

Wedding and Marriage

...This form Roundel is not included in the forms of poetry on PS. So I have to placeunder the category of Rondeau.
(A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English la...

Categories: swinburne, marriage, poetry,
Form: Roundel