Poems and Ballads
Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism.
The poems have many common elements, such as the Ocean, Time, and Death.
Several historical persons are mentioned in the poems, such as Sappho, Anactoria, Jesus (Galilaee, La.
It includes verses to Baudelaire, Gautier, Villon, Hugo, and Théodore de Banville.
[9][10] In 1889, Swinburne published a collection of poems titled Poems and Ballads, Third Series, which contains "To a Seamew", "Pan and Thalassius", "Neap-Tide", elegies for Sir Henry Taylor and John William Inchbold, and border ballads, that were written for an unfinished novel, Lesbia Brandon.
The sea and time are common motifs in Swinburne's poetry.
