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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
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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On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
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For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
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Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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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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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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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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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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Let weakness learn meekness.
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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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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
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Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?
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Change lays not her hand upon truth.
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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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