SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Trafalgar Day," dated at end 21 October 1895. 2 pages, 4to, 32 lines in 8 stanzas, boldly written on pages one and four of a four page sheet of blue paper, titled at the head of page one, laid in a folding cloth case. A celebratory poem honoring Admiral Horatio Nelson, stanza 7 reading "The music of his name puts fear to scorn; And thrills our twilight through with sense of mourn: As England was, how should not England be? No tempest yet has left her banner torn." Published in A Channel Passage and Other Poems , 1904.
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Trafalgar Day," dated at end 21 October 1895. 2 pages, 4to, 32 lines in 8 stanzas, boldly written on pages one and four of a four page sheet of blue paper, titled at the head of page one, laid in a folding cloth case. A celebratory poem honoring Admiral Horatio Nelson, stanza 7 reading "The music of his name puts fear to scorn; And thrills our twilight through with sense of mourn: As England was, how should not England be? No tempest yet has left her banner torn." Published in A Channel Passage and Other Poems , 1904.
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