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Erigone

by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837–1909

From Poems & Ballads (First Series)

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I am the queen Erigone.
The wild wine shed as blood on me
Made my face brighter than a bride's.
My large lips had the old thirst of earth,
Mine arms the might of the old sea's girth
Bound round the whole world's iron sides.
Within mine eyes and in mine ears
Were music and the wine of tears,
And light, and thunder of the tides.
Et hic exeant, et dicat Bersabe regina;

Alas, God, for thy great pity
And for the might that is in thee,
Behold, I woful Bersabe
Cry out with stoopings of my knee
And thy wrath laid and bound on me
Till I may see thy love.
Behold, Lord, this child is grown
Within me between bone and bone
To make me mother of a son,
Made of my body with strong moan;
There shall not be another one
That shall be made hereof.

MLA

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Erigone.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/562/.

Chicago

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Erigone.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/562/.

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