Death & Dying
VI
From The Heptalogia
Death & Dying
In the darkness (right Dickens) of Tom-All-Alone's
Or the Morgue out in Paris, where tragedy centuples
Life's effects by Death's algebra, Shakespeare (Malone's)
Might have said sleep was murdered--new scholiasts have sent you pills
To purge text of him! Bread? give me--Scottice--scones!
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “VI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/65/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “VI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/65/.
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