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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
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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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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Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
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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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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
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When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.
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Yet leave me not yet, if thou wilt, be free love me no more, but love my love of thee.
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