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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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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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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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
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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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O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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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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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.
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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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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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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
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