Nature
Herodias
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Nature
I am the queen Herodias.
This headband of my temples was
King Herod's gold band woven me.
This broken dry staff in my hand
Was the queen's staff of a great land
Betwixen Perse and Samarie.
For that one dancing of my feet,
The fire is come in my green wheat,
From one sea to the other sea.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Herodias.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/542/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Herodias.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/542/.
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