Versos English Algernon Charles Swinburne Xxxviii

English poem

Xxxviii

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Listen in the reader

For now the deep dense plumes of night are thinned Surely with winnowing of the glimmering wind Whose feet are fledged with morning; and the breath Begins in heaven that sings the dark to death. And all the night wherein men groaned and sinned Sickens at heart to hear what sundawn saith.