Swinburne devised the roundel, an eleven-line poem with a refrain taken from its opening words, and here writes a hundred of them. Dedicated to Christina Rossetti, they range over harbours and winds, time and memory, dead friends, the death of Richard Wagner, the seasons, and a run of tender poems on babies.
A showcase of Swinburne’s metrical virtuosity in miniature. Download the free EPUB.