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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
Literary Critic
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London
England
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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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When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
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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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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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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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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.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
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White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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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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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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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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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
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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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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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