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SORROW by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SORROW, ON WING THROUGH THE WORLD FOREVER
Last Line: SORROW.
Subject(s): GRIEF; PAIN; ROUNDELS; SORROW; SADNESS; SUFFERING; MISERY;
SORROW, on wing through the world forever,
Here and there for awhile would borrow
Rest, if rest might haply deliver
Sorrow.

One thought lies close in her heart gnawn through
With pain, a weed in a dried up-river,
A rust-red share in an empty furrow.

Hearts that strain at her chain would sever
The link where yesterday frets to-morrow!
All things pass in the world, but never
Sorrow.



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