Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
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Storm winds, melting snow and the first signs of spring fill the opening ode of this collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne. March appears as a powerful presence that unsettles the landscape and renews it. The poems then turn toward public life: The Commonweal looks back over English history and weighs the hopes and disappointments of a long reign. These changing subjects give the collection room for both forceful declarations and quieter reflections.
The shorter poems in the middle bring the scale closer to home. In a Garden follows a baby's responses to flowers, birds, the moon and the sea, while A Rhyme and Baby-Bird find their subjects in a child's face, laughter and movements. Readers interested in the sound and structure of verse can compare the expansive lines of the opening ode with these compact songs, where repeated words and images carry affection and wonder.
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