Love
XXXI
From Poems & Ballads (Second Series)
Love
Who cannot hate, can love not; if he grieve,
His tears are barren as the unfruitful rain
That rears no harvest from the green sea's plain,
And as thorns crackling this man's laugh is vain.
Nor can belief touch, kindle, smite, reprieve
His heart who has not heart to disbelieve.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/407/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/407/.
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