Love
XV
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Love
All this she dreams of, and her eyes
Are wrought after the sense hereof.
There is no heart in her for sighs;
The face of her is more than love--
A name above the Ptolemies.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/378/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/378/.
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