Produced by Paul Murray, Christina and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Poems and Ballads Second Series By Algernon Charles Swinburne Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne--Vol. III 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 Poems and Ballads Second Series By Algernon Charles Swinburne Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne--Vol. III 1917 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN _First printed (Chatto), 1904_ _Reprinted 1904, '05, '10, '12_ _(Heinemann), 1917_ London: William Heinemann, 1917 CONTENTS POEMS AND BALLADS Second Series The Last Oracle 5 In the Bay 11 A Forsaken Garden 22 Relics 26 At a Month's End 29 Sestina 34 The Year of the Rose 36 A Wasted Vigil 39 The Complaint of Lisa 42 For the Feast of Giordano Bruno 48 Ave Atque Vale 50 Memorial Verses on the Death of Theophile Gautier 58 Sonnet (with a Copy of _Mademoiselle de Maupin_) 66 Age and Song (to Barry Cornwall) 67 In Memory of Barry Cornwall 69 Epicede 72 To Victor Hugo 74 Inferiae 75 A Birth-Song 77 Ex-Voto 81 A Ballad of Dreamland 85 Cyril Tourneur 87 A Ballad of Francois Villos 88 Pastiche 90 Before Sunset 92 Song 93 A Vision of Spring in Winter 94 Choriambics 98