Songs of the Springtides And Birthday Ode
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The fairest things, meseemed, Truth, dreaming, ever dreamed, Had made mine eyes already like a god's to see: Of all sea-things that were Clothed on with water and air, That none could live more fairThan thy sweet love long since had shown for love to me.
I knew not, mother of mine, [_Ant. _ 1. That one birth more divine Than all births else of thineThat hang like flowers or jewels on thy deep soft breast Was left for me to shine Above thy girdling line Of bright and breathing brine, To take... mine eyes with rapture and my sense with rest.
That this was left for me, [_Ant. _2. Mother, to have of thee, To touch, to taste, to see, To feel as fire fulfilling all my blood and breath, As wine of living fire Keen as the heart's desire That makes the heart its pyreAnd on its burning visions burns itself to death.
For here of all thy waters, here of allThy windy ways the wildest, and besetAs some beleaguered city's war-breached wallWith deaths enmeshed all round it in deep net, Thick sown with rocks deadlier than steel, and fierceWith loud cross-countering currents, where the shipFlags, flickering like a wind-bewildered leaf, The densest weft of waves that prow may pierceCoils round the sharpest warp of shoals that dipSuddenly, scarce well under for one briefKeen breathing-space between the streams adverse, Scarce showing the fanged edge of one hungering lipOr one tooth lipless of the ravening reef;And midmost of the murderous water's webAll round it stretched and spun, Laughs, reckless of rough tide and raging ebb, The loveliest thing that shines against the sun.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The fairest things, meseemed, Truth, dreaming, ever dreamed, Had made mine eyes already like a god's to see: Of all sea-things that were Clothed on with water and air, That none could live more fairThan thy sweet love long since had shown for love to me.
I knew not, mother of mine, [_Ant. _ 1. That one birth more divine Than all births else of thineThat hang like flowers or jewels on thy deep soft breast Was left for me to shine Above thy girdling line Of bright and breathing brine, To take... mine eyes with rapture and my sense with rest.
That this was left for me, [_Ant. _2. Mother, to have of thee, To touch, to taste, to see, To feel as fire fulfilling all my blood and breath, As wine of living fire Keen as the heart's desire That makes the heart its pyreAnd on its burning visions burns itself to death.
For here of all thy waters, here of allThy windy ways the wildest, and besetAs some beleaguered city's war-breached wallWith deaths enmeshed all round it in deep net, Thick sown with rocks deadlier than steel, and fierceWith loud cross-countering currents, where the shipFlags, flickering like a wind-bewildered leaf, The densest weft of waves that prow may pierceCoils round the sharpest warp of shoals that dipSuddenly, scarce well under for one briefKeen breathing-space between the streams adverse, Scarce showing the fanged edge of one hungering lipOr one tooth lipless of the ravening reef;And midmost of the murderous water's webAll round it stretched and spun, Laughs, reckless of rough tide and raging ebb, The loveliest thing that shines against the sun.
What to read after Songs of the Springtides And Birthday Ode?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Swinburne Algernon Charles to read onlineMoreLess
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