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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.
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 loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
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Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal Nor days nor things diurnal Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.
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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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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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We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure Today will die tomorrow Time stoops to no man's lure.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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