Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SORROW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE


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First Line: Sorrow, on wing through the world forever
Last Line: Sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Roundels; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SORROW, on wing through the world forever,
Here and there for awhile would borrow
Rest, if rest might haply deliver
Sorrow.

One thought lies close in her heart gnawn through
With pain, a weed in a dried up-river,
A rust-red share in an empty furrow.

Hearts that strain at her chain would sever
The link where yesterday frets to-morrow!
All things pass in the world, but never
Sorrow.





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