Nature
Thomyris
From Poems & Ballads (First Series)
Nature
I am the queen of Scythians.
My strength was like no strength of man's,
My face like day, my breast like spring.
My fame was felt in the extreme land
That hath sunshine on the one hand
And on the other star-shining.
Yea, and the wind there fails of breath;
Yea, and there life is waste like death;
Yea, and there death is a glad thing.
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MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Thomyris.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/552/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Thomyris.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/552/.
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