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Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
London
England
Algernon Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Eyes
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Red
Love
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Lips
Rose
Tears
Thorny
Dead
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Head
Pale

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