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Title: A Channel Passage and Other Poems
Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles
Swinburne--Vol VI
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Channel Passage and other poems
By
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles
Swinburne--Vol VI
THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON
CHARLES SWINBURNE
VOL. VI
A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY: ASTROPHEL: A CHANNEL
PASSAGE AND OTHER TALES
SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS
I. POEMS AND BALLADS (First Series).
II. SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE, AND SONGS OF TWO
NATIONS.
III. POEMS AND BALLADS (Second and Third Series), and SONGS
OF THE
SPRINGTIDES.
IV. TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE, THE TALE OF BALEN,
ATALANTA IN CALYDON,
ERECHTHEUS.
V. STUDIES IN SONG, A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS,
SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC
POETS, THE HEPTALOGIA, ETC.
VI. A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY, ASTROPHEL, A CHANNEL
PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY: ASTROPHEL: A CHANNEL

PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
By
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1917
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
_First printed_ (_Chatto_), 1904
_Reprinted_ 1904, '09, '10, '12
(_Heinemann_), 1917
_London: William Heinemann_, 1917
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
PAGE
A CHANNEL PASSAGE 279
THE LAKE OF GAUBE 284
THE PROMISE OF THE HAWTHORN 288
HAWTHORN TIDE 289
THE PASSING OF THE HAWTHORN 296
TO A BABY KINSWOMAN 297
THE ALTAR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 301
A NEW YEAR'S EVE 321
IN A ROSARY 324

THE HIGH OAKS 326
BARKING HALL: A YEAR AFTER 331
MUSIC: AN ODE 334
THE CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE 336
TRAFALGAR DAY 338
CROMWELL'S STATUE 340
A WORD FOR THE NAVY 342
NORTHUMBERLAND 346
STRATFORD-ON-AVON 349
BURNS: AN ODE 350
THE COMMONWEAL: A SONG FOR UNIONISTS 355
THE QUESTION 359
APOSTASY 363
RUSSIA: AN ODE 366
FOR GREECE AND CRETE 370
DELPHIC HYMN TO APOLLO 372
A NEW CENTURY 374
AN EVENING AT VICHY 375
TO GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS 378
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. LYNN LINTON 379

IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI 382
CARNOT 383
AFTER THE VERDICT 384
THE TRANSVAAL 385
REVERSE 386
THE TURNING OF THE TIDE 387
ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL BENSON 388
ASTRÆA VICTRIX 389
THE FIRST OF JUNE 393
A ROUNDEL FROM VILLON 395
A ROUNDEL OF RABELAIS 396
LUCIFER 397
THE CENTENARY OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS 398
AT A DOG'S GRAVE 400
THREE WEEKS OLD 402
A CLASP OF HANDS 403
PROLOGUE TO DOCTOR FAUSTUS 405
PROLOGUE TO ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM 407
PROLOGUE TO OLD FORTUNATUS 409
PROLOGUE TO THE DUCHESS OF MALFY 411

PROLOGUE TO THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY 413
PROLOGUE TO THE BROKEN HEART 415
PROLOGUE TO A VERY WOMAN 417
PROLOGUE TO THE SPANISH GIPSY 419
PROLOGUE TO THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN 421
THE AFTERGLOW OF SHAKESPEARE 423
CLEOPATRA 427
DEDICATION 435
A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
IN MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM MORRIS
AND
EDWARD BURNE JONES
A CHANNEL PASSAGE
1855
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn
shone,
Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas whence only the
sun
was gone:
Soft and sweet as the sky they smiled, and bade man
welcome: a dim

sweet hour
Gleamed and whispered in wind and sea, and heaven was
fair as a
field in flower.
Stars fulfilled the desire of the darkling world as with
music: the
starbright air
Made the face of the sea, if aught may make the face of
the sea,
more fair.
Whence came change? Was the sweet night weary of rest? What
anguish
awoke in the dark?
Sudden, sublime, the strong storm spake: we
heard the thunders as
hounds that bark.
Lovelier if aught may be lovelier than stars, we saw
the lightnings
exalt the sky,
Living and lustrous and rapturous as love that is born
but to
quicken and lighten and die.
Heaven's own heart at its highest of
delight found utterance in
music and semblance in fire:
Thunder on thunder exulted, rejoicing to
live and to satiate the
night's desire.
And the night was alive and anhungered of life as a tiger from
toils cast free:
And a rapture of rage made joyous the spirit and
strength of the
soul of the sea.
All the weight of the