with strange lips


She the strange woman, she the flower, the sword,
Red from spilt blood, a mortal flower to men,
Adorable, detestable -- even she
Saw with strange eyes and with strange lips rejoiced,
Seeing these mine own slain of mine own, and me
Made miserable above all miseries made,
A grief among all women in the world,
A name to be washed out with all men's tears.

Atalanta in Calydon, Algernon Charles Swinburne