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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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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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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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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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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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
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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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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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Today will die tomorrow.
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Love is more cruel than lust.
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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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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
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