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" The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply, of lovers none ever will... "
Living English poets [selections from their works]. - Page 250
by English poets - 1883 - 325 pages
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Atalanta in Calydon: And Lyrical Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1901 - 352 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping. Haply,...For the foam-flowers endure when the rose-blossoms And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened, And or ever the garden's last petals were shed,...
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Poems and Ballads: Second Series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1901 - 296 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply,...flowers to the sea; For the foam-flowers endure when the rose-blossomj And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened, And or ever the garden's last petals...
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Poems & Ballads: Second & Third Series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1902 - 356 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply,...rose-blossoms wither, And men that love lightly may die — but we?' And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened, And or ever the garden's last...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 24

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 658 pages
...scentless breath ; Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping. Haply,...Heart handfast in heart as they stood, "Look thither," i Did he whisper?- — "look forth from the flowers to the sea; For the foam flowers endure when the...
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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne...

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1904 - 392 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply,...rose-blossoms wither, And men that love lightly may die — but we ? " And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened, And or ever the garden's last...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

1904 - 1008 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply,...eyes went seaward a hundred sleeping Years ago. Heart liandfast in heart as they stood, " Look thither," Did he whisper? " Look forth from the flowers to...
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Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (English)

Helena Swan - 1904 - 630 pages
...The Matador, etc. : A Forenoon Ejfect, Borderland, st. 3. FOAM— FOG 173 Foam. " Look thither," ..." look forth from the flowers to the sea ; For the foam-flowers...rose-blossoms wither, And men that love lightly may die — but we ? " AC SWINBURNE, A Forsahen Garden, st. 6. 1 heard the foam-gems seething in clear...
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Selected Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1905 - 422 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply,...roseblossoms wither, And men that love lightly may die — but we ? " And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened, And or ever the garden's last...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 6

1905 - 618 pages
...scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply,...For the foam-flowers endure when the rose-blossoms withe; And men that love lightly may die — but we ? " And the same wind sang and the same waves whitened,...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 8

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...scentless breath; Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping^ Haply,..." look forth from the flowers to the sea; For the foam flowers endure when the rose blossoms wither, And men that love lightly may die — but we? "...
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