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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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
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London
England
Algernon Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Men
Noblest
Loyalty
Property
Highest
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Spiritual
Mind
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Today will die tomorrow.
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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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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
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I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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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.
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White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
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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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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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Let weakness learn meekness.
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal Nor days nor things diurnal Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.
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I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet He that hath more, let him give He that hath wings, let him soar Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.
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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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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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