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Title: Studies in Song

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Release Date: October 31, 2005 [EBook #16973]

Language: English

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STUDIES IN SONG

BY

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1880

_All rights reserved_

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

CONTENTS.

PAGE
SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1

GRAND CHORUS OF BIRDS FROM ARISTOPHANES 67

OFF SHORE 75

AFTER NINE YEARS 95

FOR A PORTRAIT OF FELICE ORSINI 103

EVENING ON THE BROADS 107

THE EMPEROR'S PROGRESS 125

THE RESURRECTION OF ALCILIA 131

THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY 135

THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA 139

SIX YEARS OLD 145

A PARTING SONG 151

BY THE NORTH SEA 161

SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

BORN JANUARY 30TH, 1775

DIED SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1864

There is delight in singing, though none hear
Beside the singer: and there is delight
In praising, though the praiser sit alone
And see the praised far off him, far above.

LANDOR.

DEDICATION.

TO MRS. LYNN LINTON.

_Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate
By love and reverence of the Olympian sire
Whom I too loved