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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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No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.
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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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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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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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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
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At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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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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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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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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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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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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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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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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