Love
Fifth Antiphone
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Love
From all thy lovers that love thee
I God will sunder thee;
I will make darkness above thee,
And thick darkness under thee;
Before me goeth a light,
Behind me a sword;
Shall a remnant find grace in my sight?
I am the Lord.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Fifth Antiphone.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/500/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Fifth Antiphone.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/500/.
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