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Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
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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London
England
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.
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Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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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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Fruits fail and love dies and time rangesThou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled faith lives when hope dies dead.
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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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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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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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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
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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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Sleep and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks thou hast no more to live And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
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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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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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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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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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His speech is a burning fire.
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