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Love is more cruel than lust.
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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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 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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Today will die tomorrow.
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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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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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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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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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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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
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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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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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Ask nothing more of me sweet All I can give you I give Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
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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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