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 | ||||||||
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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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