SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES

BIRTHDAY ODE

Taken from

THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS
OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE,
VOL. III


By

Algernon Charles Swinburne


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


SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES

BIRTHDAY ODE

By

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1917

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN


First printed (Chatto), 1904
Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12
(Heinemann), 1917



London: William Heinemann, 1917


SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES

To Edward John Trelawny293
Thalassius295
On the Cliffs311
The Garden of Cymodoce326
Birthday Ode341
Notes359

SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES


[Pg 293]

DEDICATION

TO EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY

A sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting,
As the north sea-wind caught and strained and curled
The raven-figured flag that led men fighting
From field to green field of the water-world,
Might find such brief high favour a
...

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