A Channel Passage and Other Poems
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By Algernon Charles Swinburne
3 Dec, 2019
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence only the sun was gone:Soft and sweet as the sky they smiled, and bade man welcome: a dim sweet hourGleamed and whispered in w
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Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence only the sun was gone:Soft and sweet as the sky they smiled, and bade man welcome: a dim sweet hourGleamed and whispered in wind and sea, and heaven was fair as a field in flower.Stars fulfilled the desire of the darkling world as with music: the starbright airMade the face of the sea, if aught may make the face of the sea, more fair.
Whence came change? Was the sweet night weary of rest? What anguish awoke in the dark?Sudden, sublime, the strong storm spake: we heard the thunders as hounds that bark.Lovelier if aught may be lovelier than stars, we saw the lightnings exalt the sky,Living and lustrous and rapturous as love that is born but to quicken and lighten and die. Heaven's own heart at its highest of delight found utterance in music and semblance in fire:Thunder on thunder exulted, rejoicing to live and to satiate the night's desire. Less
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- 2019-03-06
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