swound

His moustache be so fine, I am nigh to a swound!

Choler does kill me that thou art alive; I swound to see thee.

Like noises in a swound!

He sat there gasping and glassy eyed for seconds, then fell backwards in an unheeded distressed swound.

Mighty a flame of fire Roars downward: as a maiden from a swound My spirit answers to its own desire.

It cracks and growls, and roars and howls, like noises in a swound.

Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound: It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.

1990: Swound Vibes, The Moreaus

CASSIUS But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?

The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!

With that the lords and the company round With a hearty laughter were ready to swound; At last said the lords, 'Full well we may see, The bride and the bridegroom's beholden to thee.'

Their lightnings move me To stir me, to throw me As into a swound, The song of the infinite surf that is beaten and bound As a fierce wolf-hound, The song that lures me, and lifts men, and mingles my soul into sound!