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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
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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For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.
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In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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