A Century of Roundels

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS

BY
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

SECOND EDITION

London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1883

[All rights reserved]

LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET

DEDICATION
TO
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

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.

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
I.	In Harbour	[1]
II.	,,	[2]
III.	The Way of the Wind	[3]
IV.	Had I Wist	[4]
V.	Recollections	[5]
VI.	,,	[6]
VII.	,,	[7]
VIII.	Time and Life	[8]
IX.	,,	[9]
X.	A Dialogue	[10]
XI.	,,	[11]
XII.	,,	[12]
XIII.	Plus Ultra	[13]
XIV.	A Dead Friend	[14]
XV.	,,	[15]
XVI.	,,	[16]
XVII.	,,	[17]
XVIII.	,,	[18]
XIX.	,,	[19]
XX.	,,	[20]
XXI.	Past Days	[21]
XXII.	,,	[22]
XXIII.	,,	[23]
XXIV.	Autumn and Winter	[24]
XXV.	,,	[25]
XXVI.	,,	[26]
XXVII.	,,	[27]
XXVIII.	The Death of Richard Wagner	[28]
XXIX.	,,	[29]
XXX.	,,	[30]
	Two preludes:
XXXI.	Lohengrin	[31]
XXXII.	Tristan und Isolde	[32]
XXXIII.	The Lute and the Lyre	[33]
XXXIV.	Plus Intra	[34]
XXXV.	Change	[35]
XXXVI.	A Baby’s Death	[36]
XXXVII.	,,	[37]
XXXVIII.	,,	[38]
XXXIX.	,,	[39]
XL.	,,	[40]
XLI.	,,	[41]
XLII.	,,	[42]
XLIII.	One of Twain	[43]
XLIV.	,,	[44]
XLV.	Death and Birth	[45]
XLVI.	Birth and Death	[46]
XLVII.	Benediction	[47]
XLVIII.	Étude Réaliste	[48]
XLIX.	,,	[49]
L.	,,	[50]
LI.	Babyhood	[51]
LII.	,,	[52]
LIII.	,,	[53]
LIV.	,,	[54]
LV.	First Footsteps	[55]
LVI.	A Ninth Birthday	[56]
LVII.	,,	[57]
LVIII.	,,	[58]
LIX.	Not a Child	[59]
LX.	,,	[60]
LXI.	,,	[61]
LXII.	To Dora Dorian	[62]
LXIII.	The Roundel	[63]
LXIV.	At Sea	[64]
LXV.	Wasted Love	[65]
LXVI.	Before Sunset	[66]
LXVII.	A Singing Lesson	[67]
	Flower-pieces:
LXVIII.	Love Lies Bleeding	[68]
LXIX.	Love in a Mist	[69]
	Three faces:
LXX.	Ventimiglia	[70]
LXXI.	Genoa	[71]
LXXII.	Venice	[72]
LXXIII.	Eros	[73]
LXXIV.	,,	[74]
LXXV.	,,	[75]
LXXVI.	Sorrow	[76]
LXXVII.	Sleep	[77]
LXXVIII.	On an Old Roundel	[78]
LXXIX.		[79]
LXXX.	A Landscape by Courbet	[80]
LXXXI.	A Flower-piece by Fantin	[81]
LXXXII.	A Night-piece by Millet	[82]
LXXXIII.	Marzo Pazzo	[83]
LXXXIV.	Dead Love	[84]
LXXXV.	Discord	[85]
LXXXVI.	Concord	[86]
LXXXVII.	Mourning	[87]
LXXXVIII.	Aperotos Eros	[88]
LXXXIX.	To Catullus	[89]
CX.	‘Insularum Ocelle’	[90]
CXI.	In Sark	[91]
CXII.	In Guernsey	[92]
CXIII.	,,	[93]
CXIV.	,,	[94]
CXV.	,,	[95]
CXVI.	,,	[96]
CXVII.	,,	[97]
CXVIII.	,,	[98]
CXIX.	,,	[99]
C.	Envoi	[100]

IN HARBOUR.