Living
From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Living
Sleep likes me well, and better yet to know
I am but stone. While shame and grief must be,
Good hap is mine, to feel not, nor to see:
Take heed, then, lest thou wake me: ah, speak low.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/273/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/273/.
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