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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
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A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.
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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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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
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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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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
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I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.
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A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
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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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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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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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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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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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We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure Today will die tomorrow Time stoops to no man's lure.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love is more cruel than lust.
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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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