“ But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. ”
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“ From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal, Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night. ”
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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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“ Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives. ”
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“ No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done. ”
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“ No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives. ”
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“ We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. ”
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“ Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath; We have drunken from things Lethean, And fed on the fullness of death. ”
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“ We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. ”
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“ To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin. ”
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“ To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin. ”
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“ Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives. ”
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“ Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives. ”
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“ Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ”
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“ Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. ”
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“ Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom. ”
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“ By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee. ”
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“ To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things in life. ”
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“ Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ For winter's rains and ruins are over...And in Green under wood and coverBlossum by blossom the spring begins. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark. ”
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