Selections from Swinburne

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Introduction
From Poems and Ballads, First Series: The triumph of time
A leave-taking
Itylus
A match
In memory of Walter Savage Landor
The garden of Prosperine
Dedication, 1865
From Poems and Ballads, Second Series: A forsaken garden
Ave atque vale
Song
From Poems and Ballads, Third Series: To Armada
To a seamew
In a garden
The winds
The bride's tragedy
A Jacobite's exile
From Songs of the Springtides: Thalassius
From Songs before Sunrise: Prelude
A watch in the night
To Walt Whitman in America
Mater triumphalis
Cor cordium
Perinde ac cadaver
The oblation
From Tristram of Lyonesse: Storm in 'The sailing of the swallow
From Atalanta in Calydon: Argument
First chorus
Althaea
Second chorus
Althaea to Meleager
Meleager to Althaea
Althaea and Meleager
Herald
Last chorus
From Studies in Song: By the North Sea
From A Century of Roundels and Other Poems: Adieux à Marie Stuart
A child's laughter
Nephelidia
From A Midsummer Holiday: On a country road
From Astrophel and Other Poems: A swimmer's dream
Eton: an ode
Jacobite song
A channel passage
Prose passages: Review of L'homme qui rit
Byron
Notes.

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