Love
IX
From The Heptalogia
Love
My skin might change to a pitiful crone's,
My lips to a lizard's, my hair to weed,
My features, in fact, to a series of loans;
Thus much is conceded; now, you, concede
You would hardly salute me by choice, John Jones?
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “IX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/67/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “IX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/67/.
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