Versos English Algernon Charles Swinburne Herodias

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Herodias

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I am the queen Herodias. This headband of my temples was King Herod's gold band woven me. This broken dry staff in my hand Was the queen's staff of a great land Betwixen Perse and Samarie. For that one dancing of my feet, The fire is come in my green wheat, From one sea to the other sea.