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    A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V
    A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V
    A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V
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    A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V

    By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V - Algernon Charles Swinburne

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      Title: A Dark Month

      From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V

      Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Release Date: June 7, 2006 [EBook #18524]

      Language: English

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      A Dark Month

      By

      Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Vol. V)

      THE COLLECTED POETICAL WORKS

      OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

      VOL. V

      STUDIES IN SONG : A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS : SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS : THE HEPTALOGIA : ETC.

      SWINBURNE'S POETICAL WORKS

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      STUDIES IN SONG : A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS : SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS : THE HEPTALOGIA : ETC.

      By

      Algernon Charles Swinburne

      1917

      LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

      A DARK MONTH

      La maison sans enfants!—Victor Hugo.

      I

      A month without sight of the sun

      Rising or reigning or setting

      Through days without use of the day,

      Who calls it the month of May?

      The sense of the name is undone

      And the sound of it fit for forgetting.

      We shall not feel if the sun rise,

      We shall not care when it sets:

      If a nightingale make night's air

      As noontide, why should we care?

      Till a light of delight that is done rise,

      Extinguishing grey regrets;

      Till a child's face lighten again

      On the twilight of older faces;

      Till a child's voice fall as the dew

      On furrows with heat parched through

      And all but hopeless of grain,

      Refreshing the desolate places—

      Fall clear on the ears of us hearkening

      And hungering for food of the sound

      And thirsting for joy of his voice:

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