Social Commentaries
XXIII
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Social Commentaries
They climb and fall, ensnared, enshrouded,
By mists of words and toils they set
To take themselves, till fierce regret
Grows mad with shame, and all their clouded
Red skies hang sunless yet.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/230/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/230/.
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