Love
XII
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Love
Strange clouds have risen between, and wild
Red stars of storm that lit the abyss
Wherein fierce fraud and violence kiss
And mock such promise as beguiled
The fiftieth year from this.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/219/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/219/.
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