Love
XVI
From The Heptalogia
Love
What they bid me? Well, this, nothing more--"Tell her this--
'You are mine, I yours, though the whole world fail--
Though things are not, I know there is one thing which is--
Though the oars break, there's hope for us yet--hoist the sail!
Oh, your heart! what's the heart? but your kiss!'
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/47/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/47/.
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