Love
II
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc.
There beats no heart on either border
Wherethrough the north blasts blow
But keeps your memory as a warder
His beacon-fire aglow.
Long since it fired with love and wonder
Mine, for whose April age
Blithe midsummer made banquet under
The shade of Hermitage.
Soft sang the burn's blithe notes, that gather
Strength to ring true:
And air and trees and sun and heather
Remembered you.
Old border ghosts of fight or fairy
Or love or teen,
These they forgot, remembering Mary
The Queen.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “II.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/299/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “II.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/299/.
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