Death & Dying
XX
From Poems & Ballads (Second Series)
Death & Dying
Like sunrise never wholly risen, nor yet
Quenched; or like sunset never wholly set,
A light to lighten as from living eyes
The cold unlit close lids of one that lies
Dead, or a ray returned from death's far skies
To fire us living lest our lives forget.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/396/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/396/.
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