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A Century of Roundels

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

2019-12-03 20:58:20

Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong The heart spake through them, scarce should hope to please Ears tuned to strains of loftier thoughts than throng    Songs light as these. Yet grace may set their sometime doubt at ease, ... Read more
Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong The heart spake through them, scarce should hope to please Ears tuned to strains of loftier thoughts than throng    Songs light as these. Yet grace may set their sometime doubt at ease, Nor need their too rash reverence fear to wrong The shrine it serves at and the hope it sees. For childlike loves and laughters thence prolong Notes that bid enter, fearless as the breeze, Even to the shrine of holiest-hearted song,    Songs light as these. Less

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File size57.796 KB
Print pages80
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2009-10-29
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781985327238
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and cont...

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