Astrophel and Other Poems

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

41 chapters3h 43mEnglish1917

About this book

A collection of poems by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, first published in 1904 and dedicated to the artist and designer William Morris. The first poem is a tribute to the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney and his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Chapters (41)

1Astrophel

572

2A Nympholept

1381

3On the South Coast

802

4An Autumn Vision

999

5A Swimmer's Dream

471

6Grace Darling

585

7Loch Torridon

623

8The Palace of Pan

244

9A Year's Carols

346

10England: an Ode

480

11Eton: an Ode

227

12The Union

130

13East to West

107

14Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal

151

15On the Death of Richard Burton

250

16Elegy

648

17A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning

520

18Sunset and Moonrise

19Birthday Ode

186

20Threnody

191

21The Ballad of Melicertes

200

22Au Tombeau de Banville

23Light: an Epicide

177

24Threnody

156

25A Dirge

26A Reminicence

27Via Dolorosa

544

28In Memory of Aurelio Saffi

443

29The Festival of Beatrice

30The Monument of Giordano Bruno

151

31Life in Death

32Epicede

259

33Memorial Verses on the Death of William Bell Scott

383

34An Old Saying

35A Moss-Rose

36To a Cat

219

37Hawthorn Dyke

38The Brothers

278

39Jacobite Song

220

40The Ballad of Dead Men's Bay

439

41Dedication

297

Astrophel and Other Poems

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Chapters (41)

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