Death & Dying
III
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc.
Queen once of Scots and ever of ours
Whose sires brought forth for you
Their lives to strew your way like flowers.
Adieu.
Dead is full many a dead man's name
Who died for you this long
Time past: shall this too fare the same,
My song?
But surely, though it die or live,
Your face was worth
All that a man may think to give
On earth.
No darkness cast of years between
Can darken you:
Man's love will never bid my queen
Adieu.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “III.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/300/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “III.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/300/.
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