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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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Eye, Rose

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1884). “Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne”, New York, Crowell

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• At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Fear, Men

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.39, Psychology Press

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• I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

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  Moving, Sleep, Wind

  'The Triumph of Time'

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• For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

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  Wind, Water, Sun

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.666, Delphi Classics

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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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  Loyalty, Spiritual, Men

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1968). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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• I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sweet, Kissing, Littles

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• My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Loss, Giving

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.2911, Delphi Classics

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• Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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• For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Silence, Till The End, Noble

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865)

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• There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Heart, Coward, Herbs

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.178

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• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Tadpoles, Frogs, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.72, Syracuse University Press

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• Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

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  Dream, Remember, Forget

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.139, Carcanet

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• Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1164, Delphi Classics

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• The beast faith lives on its own dung.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Atheism, Beast, Positive Atheism

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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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dark, Light, Lust

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1516, Delphi Classics

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• Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou 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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  Art, Queens, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

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• The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

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  Spring, World, Sun

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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 .

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Grief, Men

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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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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  Work, Night, Light

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.126, Delphi Classics

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• The loves and hours of the life of a man,
  They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

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  Life, Men, Sea

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.86, Carcanet

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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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  Mother, Sweet, Kissing

  'The Triumph of Time'

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• Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Friendship

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sad, Wings, Sorrow

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1348, Delphi Classics

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• Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, Blood, Iron

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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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

  Weed, Hands, Weather

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.715, Delphi Classics

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