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The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
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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Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale and fitful face The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace Through skies the morning scarce may climb. Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears, But lit with hopes that light the year's.
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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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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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A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
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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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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
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Let weakness learn meekness.
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
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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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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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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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Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean the world has grown grey from thy breath/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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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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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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