Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WASTED LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be done for sorrow Last Line: What shall be done? Subject(s): Love; Roundels | ||||||||
WHAT shall be done for sorrow With love whose race is run? Where help is none to borrow, What shall be done? In vain his hands have spun The web, or drawn the furrow: No rest their toil hath won. His task is all gone thorough, And fruit thereof is none: And who dare say to-morrow What shall be done? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROUNDELS OF THE YEAR by JOHN DRINKWATER RONDEL OF A RONDEL by AUSTIN PHILIPS A ROUNDEL SEEMS TO FIT A ROUND OF DAYS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI A BABY'S DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A DIALOGUE: 1. by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A DIALOGUE: 2. by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A DIALOGUE: 3. by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A FLOWER-PIECE BY FANTIN by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A LANDSCAPE BY COURBET by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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