Chapter 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

ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS

ASTROPHEL 121

A NYMPHOLEPT 127

ON THE SOUTH COAST 141

AN AUTUMN VISION 149

A SWIMMER'S DREAM 159

GRACE DARLING 164

LOCH TORRIDON 171

THE PALACE OF PAN 178

A YEAR'S CAROLS 181

ENGLAND: AN ODE 186

ETON: AN ODE 191

THE UNION 194

EAST TO WEST 196

INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FOUR SIDES OF A PEDESTAL 197

ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD BURTON 199

ELEGY 202

A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING 208

SUNSET AND MOONRISE 212

BIRTHDAY ODE 214

THRENODY 217

THE BALLAD OF MELICERTES 220

AU TOMBEAU DE BANVILLE 222

LIGHT: AN EPICEDE 223

THRENODY 225

A DIRGE 227

A REMINISCENCE 229

VIA DOLOROSA 230