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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
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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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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
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In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden 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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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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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 shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
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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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Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean the world has grown grey from thy breath/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale and fitful face The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace Through skies the morning scarce may climb. Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears, But lit with hopes that light the year's.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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