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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH AND BIRTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Death and birth should dwell not near together
Last Line: Death and birth.
Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The
First Line: Death and birth should dwell not near together
Last Line: Death and birth.
Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The
Death and birth should dwell not near together:
Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:
Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether
Death and birth.
Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth
Seems that girds them each with each: yet whether
Death be best, who knows, or life on earth?
Ill the rose-red and the sable feather
Blend in one's crown plume, as grief with mirth:
Ill met still are warm and wintry weather,
Death and birth.
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