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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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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I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
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Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
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Love is more cruel than lust.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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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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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
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Today will die tomorrow.
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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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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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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.
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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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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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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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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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