Nature
XXXIII
From Poems & Ballads (Second Series)
Nature
For love we lack, and help and heat and light
To clothe us and to comfort us with might.
What help is ours to take or give? but ye--
O, more than sunrise to the blind cold sea,
That wailed aloud with all her waves all night,
Much more, being much more glorious, should you be.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/409/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/409/.
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