Algernon Charles Swinburne

“ Beating their wings on his heart and his brain,
Till a life's whole reach, were it brief, were it long,
Seemed but a field to be sown with song.
The snow-time is melted, the flower-time is fled,
That were one to me then for the joys they shed. ”

“ In your ear should ring as a dream's rebound,
As a song, that sleep in his ear keeps yet,
Tho' the senses and soul rewaking forget.
To none so fitly the sprays I send
Could come as at hail of the hand of a friend.
1878.
It is evident that "Recollections" was addressed to W. B. Scott, and was intended as the Dedication to Poems and Ballads: Second Series, 1878, but was held back when Swinburne recollected his promise to dedicate that volume to Richard Burton. Poems and Ballads: Third Series, 1889, was inscribed to Scott in a poem which contains two lines that occur in "Recollections." ”