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Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650): John Marston

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

The bitterness of death and bitterer scorn     Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou     Wast fain to gather for thy bended brow     A chaplet by no gentler forehead worn.     Grief deep as hell, wrath hardly to be borne,     Ploughed up thy soul till round the furrowing plough     The strange black soil foamed, as a black beaked prow     Bids night-black waves foam where its track has torn.     Too faint the phrase for thee that only saith     Scorn bitterer than the bitterness of death     Pervades the sullen splendour of thy soul,     Where hate and pain make war on force and fraud     And all the strengths of tyrants; whence unflawed     It keeps this noble heart of hatred whole.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet known for metrical innovation and bold themes. His "Atalanta in Calydon" and "Poems and Ballads" challenged Victorian conventions with their musical intensity and controversial subject matter.

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