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Title: A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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 RICHARD DOYLE 142
IN MEMORY OF HENRY A. BRIGHT 143
A SOLITUDE 144
VICTOR HUGO: L'ARCHIPEL DE LA MANCHE 145
THE TWILIGHT OF THE LORDS 147
CLEAR THE WAY! 153
A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY 156
A WORD FOR THE NATION 167
A WORD FROM THE PSALMIST 176
A BALLAD AT PARTING 185
_A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY_
TO THEODORE WATTS
THE SEABOARD.
The sea is at ebb, and the sound of her utmost word
Is soft as the least
wave's lapse in a still small reach.
From bay into bay, on quest of a
goal deferred,
From headland ever to headland and breach to breach

Where earth gives ear to the message that all days preach
With
changes of gladness and sadness that cheer and chide,
The lone way

lures me along by a chance untried
That haply, if hope dissolve not
and faith be whole,
Not all for nought shall I seek, with a dream for
guide.
The goal that is not, and ever again the goal.
The trackless ways are untravelled of sail or bird;
The hoar wave
hardly recedes from the soundless beach.
The silence of instant noon
goes nigh to be heard,
The viewless void to be visible: all and each,

A closure of calm no clamour of storm can breach
Concludes and
confines and absorbs them on either