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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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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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In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden 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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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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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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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
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We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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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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I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
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Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
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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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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
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Ask nothing more of me sweet All I can give you I give Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
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