Love
In Time of Mourning
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series)
Love
"Return," we dare not as we fain
Would cry from hearts that yearn:
Love dares not bid our dead again
Return.
O hearts that strain and burn
As fires fast fettered burn and strain!
Bow down, lie still, and learn.
The heart that healed all hearts of pain
No funeral rites inurn:
Its echoes, while the stars remain,
Return.
May 1885.
Cite this poem
MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “In Time of Mourning.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/274/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “In Time of Mourning.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/274/.
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