

Transcribed from the 1883 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org





                          A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS


                                    BY
                        ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

                      [Picture: Decorative graphic]

                             _SECOND EDITION_

                                  London
                       CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
                                   1883

                         [_All rights reserved_]

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                            LONDON: PRINTED BY
                 SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
                          AND PARLIAMENT STREET

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DEDICATION
TO
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI


   SONGS light as these may sound, though deep and strong
   The heart spake through them, scarce should hope to please
   Ears tuned to strains of loftier thoughts than throng
      Songs light as these.

   Yet grace may set their sometime doubt at ease,
   Nor need their too rash reverence fear to wrong
   The shrine it serves at and the hope it sees.

   For childlike loves and laughters thence prolong
   Notes that bid enter, fearless as the breeze,
   Even to the shrine of holiest-hearted song,
      Songs light as these.




CONTENTS.

                                                 PAGE
           I.  In Harbour                           1
          II.              ,,                      2
         III.  The Way of the Wind                  3
          IV.  Had I Wist                           4
           V.  Recollections                        5
          VI.              ,,                      6
         VII.              ,,                      7
        VIII.  Time and Life                        8
          IX.              ,,                      9
           X.  A Dialogue                          10
          XI.