The Swimmer (poem)

The Swimmer (poem)

"The Swimmer" is a poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. The poem is from his last volume of poems Bush Ballads and Galloping Hymns published in 1870, when he was living at Melbourne. The poem is described among "Poems Swinburnian and Form and Pessimism, but full of the Personality of Gordon",

The poem was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the fifth and last song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures.

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