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Songs Before Sunrise

by Algernon Charles SWINBURNE (1837 - 1909)

Prelude

This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian struggle for unification. - Summary by Carolin

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Listen next episodes of Songs Before Sunrise:
A Marching Song , A New Year’s Message , A watch in the Night , A Year’s Burden , An Appeal , Armand Barbès , Before a Crucifix , Blessed among Women , Christmas Antiphones , Cor Cordium , Epilogue , Eurydice , Genesis , Hertha , Hymn of Man , In San Lorenzo , Mater Dolorosa , Mater Triumphalis , Mentana - First Anniversary , Messidor , Monotones , Non Dolet , Ode on the Insurrection in Candia , On the Downs , Perinde ac Cadaver , Quia Multum Amavit , Siena , Super Flumina Babylonis , Tenebrae , The Eve of Revolution , The halt before Rome , The Litany of Nations , The Oblation , The Pilgrims , The Song of the Standard , Tiresias , To Walt Whitman in America