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If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
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London
England
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.
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To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
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For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
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I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.
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Today will die tomorrow.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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