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Love In A Mist

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,     Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,     Seems vainly to seek for a star whose gleam has derided     Light love in a mist.     All day in the sun, when the breezes do all they list,     His soft blue raiment of cloudlike blossom abided     Unrent and unwithered of winds and of rays that kissed.     Blithe-hearted or sad, as the cloud or the sun subsided,     Love smiled in the flower with a meaning whereof none wist     Save two that beheld, as a gleam that before them glided,     Light love in a mist.

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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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