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MANNERISMS 63
II, 235, . . . feels the full flower of morning shed
And fluent sunrise round him rolled.
In the same way fire, flame, foam are often used as
mere cliches, as in
1, 62, Through flamelike foam of the sea’s closing lips,
and other instances.
Hours is also a favourite word with Swinburne,
especially while rhyming with flowers, and is sometimes
used stereotypically.
1, 1, A lady clothed like summer with sweet hours.
Other instances are easy to collect.
Verbs, however, are especially liable to this loss of
their original meaning. Clothe, gird, shoe and mix, for
instance, are used for any kind of mental qualities. More
particularly is this the case with clothe. Perhaps we have
to suppose the influence of the Bible [cf. I, 27, quoted on
page 60 above]; or else the original type of these
constructions may be:
I, 194, Immortal are they, clothed with powers.
Cf. the following instances.
I, 78, Par up above the years and nations
The high gods clothed and crowned with patience.
122, . . . love . . . shall 1 unclothe my soul thereof?
142, ... they are clothed with sickness of soul . . .
II, 260, [thy people] Clothed with thy thoughts and girt with
thy desires.
III, 197, But faith is theirs; and with faith they are girded and
helmed and shod . . .
II, 112, Thy children whose bare feet were shod with thunder,
Their bare hands mailed with fire.
I, 63, ... nor mix their hearts with music.
III, 77, If thy sweet sense might mix itself with ours.
Of course these mannerisms are mostly found in the
first series of < Poems and Ballads»: the later works are
less marred by them.
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