Produced by Paul Murray, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Greek words in this text have been transliterated and placed between +marks+.] Astrophel and other poems By Algernon Charles Swinburne Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne--Vol. VI THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE VOL. VI A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY: ASTROPHEL: A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER TALES 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 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