| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | October 22 | | Theophile Gautier | | By Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | | | A French poet, critic, and novelist. He died on Oct. 22, 1872. |
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* * * * * MIXED with the masque of death’s old comedy | |
| Though 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. | |
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| Blue lotus-blooms and white and rosy-red | 5 |
| 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. | | | |
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