Death & Dying
Queen Bersabe
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Death & Dying
I wis men shall spit at me,
And say, it were but right for thee
That one should hang thee on a tree;
Ho! it were a fair thing to see
The big stones bruise her false body;
Fie! who shall see her dead?
Cite this poem
MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Queen Bersabe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/539/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Queen Bersabe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/539/.
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