Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover <br />Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: <br />Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: <br /> Love lies bleeding. <br /> <br />Stately shine his purple plumes, exceeding <br />Pride of princes: nor shall maid or lover <br />Find on earth a fairer sign worth heeding. <br /> <br />Yet may love, sore wounded scarce recover <br />Strength and spirit again, with life receding: <br />Hope and joy, wind-winged, about him hover: <br /> Love lies bleeding.<br /><br />Algernon Charles Swinburne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-lies-bleeding/
