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Songs before sunrise

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1871 · Scanned text · Free in the US

47,011 words · about 3 h 18 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD-US · Published 1871 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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Author
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Language
English
Published
1871
Length
47,011 words · about 3 h 18 min
Sections
17 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (17)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Dedication about 1 min
  3. Contents about 22 min
  4. II about 1 h 18 min
  5. III. Beyond Church about 29 min
  6. Part I about 10 min
  7. Part II about 23 min
  8. IV. Strangers came gladly to thee under 1 min
  9. V. Not for revenge or affright under 1 min
  10. VI. How should one charge thee, how sway under 1 min
  11. VII under 1 min
  12. VIII. Was it not said of thee too under 1 min
  13. IX under 1 min
  14. XI. Lo, how fair from afar under 1 min
  15. XII about 8 min
  16. Epilogue about 18 min
  17. Part IV. (Winter) I2J. Parts I. and II about 7 min
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Front matter

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Dedication

I bring you the sword of a song, The sword of my spirit's desire, Feeble ; but laid at your feet.

That which was weak shall be strong, That which was cold shall take fire. That which was bitter be sweet.

It was wrought not with hands to smite,

Contents

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THE EVE OF REVOLUTION f,. 10

THE WATCH IN THE NIGHT 30

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