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


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First Line: Love laid his sleepless head
Last Line: But day shall bring back delight.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


LOVE laid his sleepless head
On a thorny rosy bed;
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead.

And fear and sorrow and scorn
Kept watch by his head forlorn.
Till the night was overworn
And the world was merry with morn.

And Joy came up with the day
And kissed Love's lips as he lay,
And the watchers ghostly and gray
Sped from his pillow away.

And his eyes as the dawn grew bright,
And his lips waxed ruddy as light:
Sorrow may reign for a night,
But day shall bring back delight.





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