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The Heptalogia

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THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, VOL. V

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

THE HEPTALOGIA

By

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1917 LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

First printed (Chatto), 1904 Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12 (Heinemann), 1917 London: William Heinemann, 1917

THE HEPTALOGIA

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell373

John Jones's Wife375

The Poet and the Woodlouse396

The Person of the House400

Last Words of a Seventh-Rate Poet406

Sonnet for a Picture421

Nephelidia422

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