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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
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If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.
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There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
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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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God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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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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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled faith lives when hope dies dead.
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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
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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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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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