title: The Triumph of Time
text: "The Triumph of Time" is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. It is in adapted ottava rima and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration. The theme, which purports to be autobiographical, is that of rejected love. The speaker deplores the ruin of his life, and in tones at times reminiscent of Hamlet, craves oblivion, for which the sea serves as a constant metaphor.
  
  See also
  Poems and Ballads
  
  Notes
  
  External links
  
  Complete text of the poem
  Victorian Web article on the poem
  
  British poems
  1866 poems
  Poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne