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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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The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
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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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And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
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Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
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God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.
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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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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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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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Let weakness learn meekness.
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Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
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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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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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