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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. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
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! View quote
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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. View quote
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Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name. View quote
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I. But he hears not. Now, my warrior guests, I drink to the onward passage of his soul Death. Had my hand turned coward or played me false, This man that is my hand, and less than I And less than he bloodguilty, this my death Had been my husband's: now he has left it me. [Drinks] How innocent are all but he and I No time is mine to tell you. Truth shall tell. I pardon thee, my husband: pardon me. [Dies]. View quote
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Did I bid thee Mock, and forget me for thy friend - I say not, King? Is thy heart so light and lean a thing, So loose in faith and faint in love? I bade thee Stand to me, help me, hold my hand in thine And give my heart back answer. This it is, Old friend and fool, that gnaws my life in twain - The worm that writhes and feeds about my heart - The devil and God are crying in either ear One murderous word for ever, night and day, Dark day and deadly night and deadly day, Can she love thee who slewest her father? I Love her. View quote
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Time found our tired love sleeping, And kissed away his breath; But what should we do weeping, Though light love sleep to death? We have drained his lips at leisure, Till there's not left to drain A single sob of pleasure, A single pulse of pain. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Today will die tomorrow. View quote
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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. View quote
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment. View quote
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. View quote
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. View quote
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Dream that the lips once breathless Might quicken if they would; Say that the soul is deathless; Dream that the gods are good; Say March may wed September, And time divorce regret; But not that you remember, And not that I forget. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me; Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. View quote
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Those eyes the greenest of things blue The bluest of things grey. View quote
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Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites, Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites. View quote
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The thorns he spares when the rose is taken; The rocks are left when he wastes the plain; The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken, These remain. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
For in the days we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom. View quote
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She hath wasted with fire thine high places, She hath hidden and marred and made sad The fair limbs of the Loves, the fair faces Of gods that were goodly and glad. She slays, and her hands are not bloody; She moves as a moon in the wane, White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy, Our Lady of Pain. View quote
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A crown and justice? Night and day Shall first be yoked together. View quote
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I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne