Nature
XXVIII
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Nature
From light to light her eyes imperial
Turn, and require the further light,
More perfect than the sun's in sight,
Till star and sun seem all funereal
Lamps of the vaulted night.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXVIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/235/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXVIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/235/.
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