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Title: A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Release Date: May 19, 2006 [EBook #18424]

Language: English

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A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY

_AND OTHER POEMS_

BY

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

_THIRD EDITION_

London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1889

CONTENTS.

A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY:--

I. THE SEABOARD 3
II. A HAVEN 6
III. ON A COUNTRY ROAD 9
IV. THE MILL GARDEN 12
V. A SEA-MARK 16
VI. THE CLIFFSIDE PATH 19
VII. IN THE WATER 22
VIII. THE SUNBOWS 27
IX. ON THE VERGE 31

A NEW-YEAR ODE 39

LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI 66

LES CASQUETS 70

A BALLAD OF SARK 84

NINE YEARS OLD 87

AFTER A READING 94

MAYTIME IN MIDWINTER 100

A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST 105

HEARTSEASE COUNTRY 109

A BALLAD OF APPEAL 112

CRADLE SONGS 115

PELAGIUS 122

LOUIS BLANC 125

VOS DEOS LAUDAMUS 128

ON THE BICENTENARY OF CORNEILLE 132

IN SEPULCRETIS 134

LOVE AND SCORN 139

ON THE DEATH OF RIC