proserpine's garden
Completed in October 2007.
No growth of moor or coppice,
No heather-flower or vine
But bloomless buds of poppies,
Green grapes of Proserpine.
Pale beds of blowing rushes
Where no leaf blooms or blushes
Save this whereout she crushes
For dead men deadly wine.
From The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
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