Death & Dying
V
From The Heptalogia
Death & Dying
Then the heart, when all's done with, wakes, whimpers, intones
Some lost fragment of tune it thought sweet ere it grew sick;
(Is it life that disclaims this, or death that disowns?)
Mere dead metal, scrawled bars--ah, one touch, you make music!
Love's worth saving, youth doubts, but experience depones.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “V.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/64/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “V.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/64/.
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