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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
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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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
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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 sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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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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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
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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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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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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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I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet He that hath more, let him give He that hath wings, let him soar Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.
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Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.
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Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.
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And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
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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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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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