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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POETS AT TEA: 3. SWINBURNE, WHO LET IT GET COLD, by BARRY PAIN Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sin that was sweet in the sinning
Last Line: And take it away!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Tea
First Line: As the sin that was sweet in the sinning
Last Line: And take it away!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Tea
As the sin that was sweet in the sinning
Is foul in the ending thereof,
As the heat of the summer's beginning
Is past in the winter of love:
O purity, painful and pleading!
O coldness, ineffably gray!
Oh, hear us, our handmaid unheeding,
And take it away!
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