 | Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 psl.
...Sappho, the disappointed speaker of 'The Triumph of Time' also states his desire to return to origins: 'I will go back to the great sweet mother, / Mother and lover of men, the sea' (1, 42). He imagines himself, like Sappho, absorbed into the body and rhythms of the female sublime... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 2002 - 286 psl.
...heaven, That knows not itself whether night-time or day be, Reverberate words and a foolish prayer? I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and...none other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with mei 260 Cling to her, strive with her, hold her fasti O fair white mother, in days long past Born without... | |
 | Patricia Linder - 2002 - 334 psl.
...still be in the back of my mind. ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT Memoirs of an Admiral's Wife PATRICIA LINDER / will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea, Swinburne This is as I remember it and because perceptions differ, I have changed some of the names... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 2002 - 290 psl.
...knows not itself whether night-time or day he, Reverherate words and a foolish prayer? I will go hack to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea, 1 will go down to her, 1 and none other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me; 260 Cling to... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2003 - 212 psl.
...night-time or day be, Reverberate words and a foolish prayer? I will go back to the great sweet mot Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to...hold her fast; O fair white mother, in days long past Bom without sister, bom without brother. Set free my soul as thy soul is free. 0 fair green-girdled... | |
 | Fiona Capp - 2003 - 316 psl.
...from all that is feminine. And yet, in truth, it is a return to the womb, as Swinburne recognises: I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and...other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me. The darker side of this ecstatic union is the threat of annihilation in the belly of the all-consuming... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - 2003 - 724 psl.
...Triumph of Time' ( 1 866), stanzas 33-8, by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne ( 1 8371909): eg 'I will go back to the great sweet mother, / Mother and lover of men, the sea' (11. 257-8). 106:27 Dana's eyes failed ... at Harvard. 'Young Dana, while at Harvard University, which... | |
 | Robert Kastenbaum - 2004 - 461 psl.
...that death is the cure, if not the culmination, of life has received many other memorable expressions. I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and...other, Close with her, kiss her, and mix her with me. Mother and lover: what's the difference? Oedipus Schmoedipus! That's Freud's problem. Here expressed... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Stewart Bryan University Professor Jerome McGann - 2004 - 532 psl.
...heaven, That knows not itself whether night-time or day be, Reverberate words and a foolish prayer? I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and...other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me; 260 Cling to her, strive with her, hold her fast: O fair white mother, in days long past Born without... | |
 | John D. Rosenberg - 2005 - 304 psl.
...the end of the poem, in three stanzas more strange than Swinburne's critics have yet acknowledged: I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and...without brother, Set free my soul as thy soul is free. 0 fair green-girdled mother of mine, Sea, that art clothed with the sun and the rain, Thy sweet hard... | |
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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and none other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me... 
