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Sestina. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. I saw my soul at rest upon a day. As a bird sleeping in the nest of night, Among soft leaves that give the starlight way. To touch its wings but not its eyes with light; So that it knew as one in visions may, And knew not as men waking, of delight. This was the measure of my soul's delight;
Sestina. I saw my soul at rest upon a day. As a bird sleeping in the nest of night, Among soft leaves that give the starlight way. To touch its wings but not its eyes with light; So that it knew as one in visions may, And knew not as men waking, of delight. This was the measure of my soul's delight;
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘Sestina’. I saw my soul at rest upon a day As a bird sleeping in the nest of night, Among soft leaves that give the starlight way To touch its wings but not its eyes with light; So that it knew as one in visions may, And knew not as men waking, of delight …
Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “The Complaint of Lisa” is a double sestina, in which twelve end-words recur across twelve twelve-line stanzas, culminating in a six-line envoi. To top things off, Swinburne took the unusual step of rhyming the end-words.
Sestina. I saw my soul at rest upon a day. As a bird sleeping in the nest of night, Among soft leaves that give the starlight way. To touch its wings but not its eyes with light; So that it knew as one in visions may, And knew not as men waking, of delight. This was the measure of my soul’s delight; It had no power of joy to fly by day,
May 13, 2011 · Read, review and discuss the Sestina poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne on Poetry.com.
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Oct 1, 2018 · His double sestina “Ye Goat-herd Gods,” written circa 1580 as part of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, offers seventy-five lines of pastoral dialogue. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) and, much later, John Ashbery (1927–2017) would also take a turn at this ambitious variation.
