<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342013" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Marston: XII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn<br>Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou<br>Wast fain to gather for thy bended brow<br>A chaplet by no gentler forehead worn.<br>Grief deep as hell, wrath hardly to be borne,<br>Ploughed up thy soul till round the furrowing plough<br>The strange black soil foamed, as a black beaked prow<br>Bids night-black waves foam where its track has torn.<br>Too faint the phrase for thee that only saith<br>Scorn bitterer than the bitterness of death<br>Pervades the sullen splendour of thy soul,<br>Where hate and pain make war on force and fraud<br>And all the strengths of tyrants; whence unflawed<br>It keeps this noble heart of hatred whole.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342013" data-title="John Marston: XII de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou Wast fain to gather for thy bended brow A chaplet by no gentler forehead worn. Grief deep as hell, wrath hardly to be borne, Ploughed up thy soul till..."></div> </div> </div>

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