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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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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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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The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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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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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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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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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
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Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
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And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
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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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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
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