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Three faces III. Venice

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

Out of the dark pure twilight, where the stream     Flows glimmering, streaked by many a birdlike bark     That skims the gloom whence towers and bridges gleam     Out of the dark,     Once more a face no glance might choose but mark     Shone pale and bright, with eyes whose deep slow beam     Made quick the twilight, lifeless else and stark.     The same it seemed, or mystery made it seem,     As those before beholden; but St. Mark     Ruled here the ways that showed it like a dream     Out of the dark.

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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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