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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
Literary Critic
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London
England
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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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Yet leave me not yet, if thou wilt, be free love me no more, but love my love of thee.
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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 will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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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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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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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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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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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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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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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
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