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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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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If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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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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Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
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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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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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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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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
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Today will die tomorrow.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
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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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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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