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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet Last Line: Kissing her hair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
KISSING her hair, I sat against her feet: Wove and unwove it, -- wound, and found it sweet: Made fast therewith her hands, drew down her eyes, Deep as deep flowers, and dreamy like dim skies; With her own tresses bound, and found her fair, -- Kissing her hair. Sleep were no sweeter than her face to me, -- Sleep of cold sea-bloom under the cold sea: What pain could get between my face and hers? What new sweet thing would Love not relish worse? Unless, perhaps, white Death had kissed me there, -- Kissing her hair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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