Death, I would plead against thy wrong,
Who hast reft me of my love, my wife,
And art not satiate yet with strife,
But needs wilt hold me lingering long.
No strength since then has kept me strong:
But what could hurt thee in her life,
Death?
Twain we were, and our hearts one song,
One heart: if that be dead, thy knife
Hath cut me off alive from life,
Dead as the carver's figured throng,
Death!
A Roundel From The French Of Villon
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Poem topics: heart, song, strength, wife, long, strong, knife, wrong, hold, strife, life, love, I love you, death, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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