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Songs Before Sunrise

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 (5 hr 8 min)

Chapters

Dedication to Joseph Mazzini

Prelude

The Eve of Revolution

A watch in the Night

Super Flumina Babylonis

The halt before Rome

Mentana - First Anniversary

Blessed among Women

The Litany of Nations

Hertha

Before a Crucifix

Tenebrae

Hymn of Man

The Pilgrims

Armand Barbès

Quia Multum Amavit

Genesis

To Walt Whitman in America

Christmas Antiphones

A New Year’s Message

Mater Dolorosa

Mater Triumphalis

A Marching Song

Siena

Cor Cordium

In San Lorenzo

Tiresias

The Song of the Standard

On the Downs

Messidor

Ode on the Insurrection in Candia

Non Dolet

Eurydice

An Appeal

Perinde ac Cadaver

Monotones

The Oblation

A Year’s Burden

Epilogue