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Three faces I. Ventimiglia

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:     Down the one steep street, with slow steps firm and free,     A tall girl paced, with eyes too proud to thank     The sky and sea.     One dead flat sapphire, void of wrath or glee,     Through bay on bay shone blind from bank to bank     The weary Mediterranean, drear to see.     More deep, more living, shone her eyes that drank     The breathless light and shed again on me,     Till pale before their splendour waned and shrank     The sky and sea.

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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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