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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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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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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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When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled faith lives when hope dies dead.
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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.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
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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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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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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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The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
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