Love
Ahinoam
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Love
I am the queen Ahinoam.
Like the throat of a soft slain lamb
Was my throat, softer veined than his:
My lips were as two grapes the sun
Lays his whole weight of heat upon
Like a mouth heavy with a kiss:
My hair's pure purple a wrought fleece,
My temples therein as a piece
Of a pomegranate's cleaving is.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Ahinoam.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/547/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Ahinoam.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/547/.
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