ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF POEMS ON THIS SITE

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Aage and Elsie     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Ad Carissimam Amicam     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Agnes     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Alone In London     (from The Olympic Programme and Looker-On, November, 1885)

Artist And Model     (from London Poems, 1866)

Attorney Sneak     (from London Poems, 1866)

Atys     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Augurs     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Axel and Walborg     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Ballad-Maker     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

The Ballad Of Judas Iscariot     (from Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads (1878-83) in the 1884 collected edition)

The Ballad Of Kiplingson     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Ballad Of The Stork     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

Barbara Gray     (from London Poems, 1866)

The Battle Of Drumliemoor     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

The Battle Of Isandúla     (from the Contemporary Review, April 1879)

Be Pitiful     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Bexhill, 1866     (from London Poems, 1866)

Bicycle Song     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Blind Linnet     (from London Poems, 1866, aka ‘The Linnet’)

The Blue Colour     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Bonnie Groom     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Book of Orm     (1870, which includes the following:

I. FIRST SONG OF THE VEIL
1. The Veil Woven
2. Earth The Mother
3. Children of Earth
4. The Wise Men

II. THE MAN AND THE SHADOW
1. The Shadow
2. The Rainbow

III. SONGS OF CORRUPTION
1. Phantasy
2. The Dream of the World without Death
3. Soul and Flesh

IV. THE SOUL AND THE DWELLING

V. SONGS OF SEEKING
1. “O Thou whose Ears incline unto my Singing”
2. Quest
3. The Happy Earth
4. O unseen One!
5. World’s Mystery
6. The Cities
7. The Priests
8. The Lamb of God
9. Doom
10. God’s Dream
11. Flower of the World
12. O Spirit!

VI. THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL
1. Orm’s Vision
2. The Face and the World
3. Orm’s Awakening

VII. CORUISKEN SONNETS

VIII. THE CORUISKEN VISION; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE BOOK

IX. THE DEVIL’S MYSTICS
1. The Inscription Without
2. The Tree of Life
3. The Seeds
4. Fire and Water; or, A Voice of the Flesh
5. Sanitas
6. The Philosophers
7. Prayer from the Deeps
8. Homunculus; or, The Song of Deicides
9. Roses
10. Hermaphroditus
11. After
12. His Prayer

X. THE VISION OF THE MAN ACCURST                                                           )                                               

The Bookworm     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Brook     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867 - aka ‘To The Luggie’ in the 1884 collected edition)

Carlyle     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Carmen Deific     (from The New Rome, 1898, including the following:

I. “The Lord Goes Marching On”
II. “Where Is The Glory That Once Was Rome?”
III. “How Long, My Love? She Whisper’d”
IV. “Stand Up, Ephemeron”
V. “If I Were A God Like You”
VI. “A Voice Was Heard In The Night”                                                                   )

Celtic Mystics     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867 -  contains material revised for The Book of Orm, 1870)

The Charter’d Companie     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Children In The Moon     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The City Asleep     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Clari In The Well     (from the Miscellaneous Poems (1866-70) section in the 1884 collected edition)  

Cloister Robbing     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Coruisken Sonnets (Loch Coruisk, Isle Of Skye)     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Cry For Life     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Cry From The Mine     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Death Of Roland     (from London Poems, 1866)

De Berny     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Devil’s Peepshow     (from Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads (1878-83) in the 1884 collected edition)

The Devil’s Sabbath     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Dismal Throng     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Doctor B.     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Dreamer Of Dreams     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Earthquake     (1885)

Ebbe Skammelson     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Edward Crowhurst; Or, “A New Poet”     (from London Poems, 1866)

The Elf Dance     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

An English Eclogue     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

The English Huswife’s Gossip     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

L’Envoi To London Poems     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Even-Song     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Exiles Of Oona     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

Faces on the Wall     (first published in St. Pauls Magazine (May 1872), includes the following:

1.   Lone House
2.   Storm and Calm
3.   Without and Within
4.   Napoleon
5.   Abraham Lincoln
6.   Walt Whitman
7.   O Faces!
8.   Robert Browning
9.   To the Della Cruscans
10. The Wanderers
11. The Watcher of the Beacon
12. ‘And the Spirit of God Moved upon the Waters’                                                  )

The Faery Foster-Mother     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

The Fairy Queen     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Fra Giacomo     (from the Early Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)  

The Gift Of Burns     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Gift Of Eos     (from London Poems, 1866)

The Glamour     (from London Poems, 1866)

The Gnome     (from The New Rome, 1898)

God Evolving     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Golden Year: An Ode on the Jubilee of the Empress Victoria    (from The Buchanan Ballads Old and New, 1892)

Granddad In The Ingle     (from Appleton’s journal: a monthly miscellany of popular literature, March, 1874)

The Grand Old Man     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Green Gnome     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

Hahon (aka Hakon)     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

Hark Now, What Fretful Voices     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Helga and Hildebrand     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

How Sir Tonne Won His Bride     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Hugh Sutherland’s Pansies     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

I End As I Began     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Image in the Forum     (from The New Rome, 1898)

In a Fashionable Church     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

In London, March 1866     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Irishman To Cromwell     (from The New Rome, 1898)

James Avery     (from Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads (1878-83) in the 1884 collected edition)

Jane Lewson     (from London Poems, 1866)

The Jew Passes     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Joiner     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Julia Cytherea: A Legend of the Renaissance     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

Justinian; Or, The New Creed     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Kitty Kemble     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Langley Lane     (from London Poems, 1866)

A Lark’s Flight     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Last Bivouac     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Last Christians     (from The New Rome, 1898, including the following:

I. Storm In The Night, Buchanan!
II. I Saw On The Bridge Of Sorrow (The Ballad Of The Magdalen)
III. Hallelujah Jane
IV. Annie; Or, The Waif’s Jubilee                                                                             )

The Last Faith     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Last Night     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Last Of The Hangmen     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Lead-Melting     (First version from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation.
                                            Second version from The New Rome, 1898)

The Legend Of The Little Fay     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

The Legend Of The Stepmother (aka The Dead Mother)     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

Lesbia (To Catullus)     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Lights Of Leith     (from Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads (1878-83) in the 1884 collected edition)

The Litany. De Profundis     (from The Devil’s Case, 1894)

Little Christina’s Dance     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Little Milliner     (from London Poems, 1866)

Liz     (from London Poems, 1866)

London, 1864     (from London Poems, 1866)     [1884 revised version]

Lord Ronald’s Wife     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

The Lords Of The Bread     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Lost Women     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Lover’s Stratagem     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Lydia At The Savoy     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Maeterlinck     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Maid Mettelil     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Man Of The Red Right Hand     (from The New Rome, 1898)

“Mark Now, How Close They Are Akin”     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Meg Blane     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

The Mercenaries     (from The New Rome, 1898, including the following:

I. Tommie Atkins
II. Nelson’s Day                                                                                                        )

The Mermaid     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Minister And The Elfin     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

The Modern Warrior     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Monkey and the Microscope     (first published in St. Pauls Magazine (August, 1872) XI, p. 240, reprinted in Under The Microscope by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899).

A Morning Invocation     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Nell     (from London Poems, 1866)     [1884 revised version]

The New Buddha     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The New Covenant     (written for the opening ceremony of the 1888 Glasgow International Exhibition)

The New Rome: A Dialogue     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Nietszche     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Northern Muse     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

The Northern Wooing     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

O Mariners     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

O’Murtogh     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Old Rome     (from The New Rome, 1898)

On The Shore     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Owl     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Pan At Hampton Court     (from The Earthquake, 1885. Also included in The New Rome, 1898)

Pan: Epilogue     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Patriotism     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Peace, Not A Sword     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Phil Blood’s Leap     (from Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads (1878-83) in the 1884 collected edition)

A Poem To David     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

Poet Andrew     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

Preamble (to Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865 - verses 3 & 4 later reworked as ‘The Lowland Village’)

A Prelude     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867 - contains material revised for The Book of Orm, 1870)

Ramon Monat     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

Rizpah-Madonna     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

The Robin Redbreast     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Rose     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Sad Shepherd - To Thomas Hardy     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Saint’s Story     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

The Scaith O’ Bartle     (from London Poems, 1866)

A Scottish Eclogue     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

Seraphina Snowe     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Serapion     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

The Session of the Poets     (first published in the Spectator (September 15, 1866) XXXIX, p. 1028, reprinted in Under The Microscope by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899).

The Shower     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Signe at the Wake     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Signelil The Serving-Maiden     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Sigurd Of Saxony     (from North Coast and Other Poems, 1867)

Sir Morten of Fogelsong     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Sisters Of Midnight     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Socrates In Camden     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Soldier     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

Soliloquy Of The Grand Être     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

A Song Of Jubilee     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Song Of The Fur-Seal     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Song Of The Slain     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Sphinx: On The Thames Embankment     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Spring Song After Snow     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Spring Song In The City     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Starling     (from London Poems, 1866)

Storm In The Night     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

The Stormy Ones     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Sunken City     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Swallows     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

These Voices     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Tiger Bay     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

To A Poet Of The Empire     (from The New Rome, 1898)

To David In Heaven: Thirty Years After     (from The New Rome, 1898)

To George Bernard Shaw     (from The New Rome, 1898)

To Juvenal     (from The New Rome, 1898)

To Olive Schreiner    (from The New Rome, 1898)

To The Moon     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Tom Dunstan; Or, The Politician     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

The Tramp’s Ditty     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Treasure-Seeker     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The True Song Of Fairyland     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Two Babes     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

The Two Sisters     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

The Union     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Up In An Attic     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Victory     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Village Voices     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

Vox Dei     (from The New Rome, 1898)

Vox Populi     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Voyage Of Magellan     (from The Earthquake, 1885)

The Wake Of Tim O’Hara     (from the London Poems section in the 1884 collected edition)

Walt Whitman - “One Handshake, Walt!”     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Wandering Jew     (1893)    

The Wearing Of The Green     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Wee, Wee Gnome     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)

White Lily Of Weardale-Head     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

The White Robe; Or, Zola In A Nutshell     (from The New Rome, 1898)

The Widow Mysie     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

Willie Baird     (from Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, 1865)

Young Axelvold     (from Ballad Stories of the Affections: from the Scandinavian, 1866 - translation)