The Heptalogia

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547367925

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Heptalogia

EAN 8596547367925

DigiCat, 2022

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SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS

THE HEPTALOGIA

Algernon Charles Swinburne

THE HEPTALOGIA

SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS

THE HEPTALOGIA

THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE

A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS

THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL

JOHN JONES'S WIFE

THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE

THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE

IDYL CCCLXVI

LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET

SONNET FOR A PICTURE

NEPHELIDIA

THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS

OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE,

VOL. V

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LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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THE HEPTALOGIA

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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1917

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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First printed (Chatto), 1904

Reprinted 1904, '09, '10, '12

(Heinemann), 1917

London: William Heinemann, 1917

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THE HEPTALOGIA

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SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS

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THE HEPTALOGIA

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THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE

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A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS

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THE HIGHER PANTHEISM

IN A NUTSHELL

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One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is:

Surely this is not that: but that is assuredly this.

What, and wherefore, and whence? for under is over and under:

If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder.

Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt:

We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Why, and whither, and how? for barley and rye are not clover:

Neither are straight lines curves: yet over is under and over.

Two and two may be four: but four and four are not eight:

Fate and God may be twain: but God is the same thing as fate.

Ask a man what he thinks, and get from a man