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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD DOYLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A light of blameless laughter, fancy-bred
Last Line: Between the grass grown greener round his head.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: A light of blameless laughter, fancy-bred
Last Line: Between the grass grown greener round his head.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness
A LIGHT of blameless laughter, fancy-bred,
Soft-souled and glad and kind as love or sleep,
Fades, and sweet mirth's own eyes are fain to weep
Because her blithe and gentlest bird is dead.
Weep, elves and fairies all, that never shed
Tear yet for mortal mourning: you that keep
The doors of dreams whence naught of ill may creep,
Mourn once for one whose lips your honey fed.
Let waters of the Golden River steep
The rose-roots whence his grave blooms rosy-red
And murmuring of Hyblaean hives be deep
About the summer silence of its bed,
And nought less gracious than a violet peep
Between the grass grown greener round his head.
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