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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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
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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.
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I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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Ask nothing more of me sweet All I can give you I give Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
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Let weakness learn meekness.
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Sleep and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks thou hast no more to live And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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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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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
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Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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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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I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
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I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.
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