Our Lady of Pain T-Shirt

Seductive and mysterious, Charles Algernon Swinburne’s poem “Our Lady of Pain” takes the form of a litany to an ancient goddess. Rather than representing love or beauty, though, Our Lady of Pain is a deity of lust, despair, and desolation. Swinburne scandalized his Victorian contemporaries with these voluptuous verses about a “poisonous queen.”

The shirt reads:

Thou shalt hush him with heavy caresses,

With music that scares the profane;

Thou shalt darken his eyes with thy tresses

Our Lady of Pain

• Swinburne’s verse comes alive in a gothic font with blood red accents and a dancing goddess figure.
• 100% soft cotton keeps you comfortable while you show off the “mystical rose of the mire.”

Get it now, and indulge in the forbidden.

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