James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
October 22Theophile Gautier
By Algernon Charles Swinburne (18371909)*****
MThough thou too pass, have here our flowers, that we
For all the flowers thou gav’st upon thee shed,
And pass not crownless to Persephone.
We wind with poppies for thy silent head,
And on this margin of the sundering sea
Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead.