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• Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Infinite, Mercy

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.95, Carcanet

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• And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Kissing, Names, Blame

  'An Interlude'

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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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• His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Sleep, Vision

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

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  Desire, Delight, Outrun

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.182

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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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Baby, Angel, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wise, Wisdom, Safety

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• Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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  Sweet, Heart, Feet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Fate, Men, Compensation

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

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• There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

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  Artist, Essence, Dumb

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.152, Chatto & Windus

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• Where might is, the right is:
  Long purses make strong swords.
  Let weakness learn meekness:
  God save the House of Lords!

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Strong, Long, House

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1275, Delphi Classics

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• Love is more cruel than lust.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love Is, Lust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• In friendship's fragrant garden,
  There are flowers of every hue.
  Each with its own fair beauty
  And its gift of joy for you.
  Friendship's Garden
  
  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

  Flower, Garden, Weather

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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• His speech is a burning fire.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Fire, Burning, Speech

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• Despair the twin-born of devotion.

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  Despair, Twins, Devotion

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.182

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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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Kissing, Missing, Shame

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.175

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• When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Marriage, Sorrow, Theism

  "The Letters: With Some Personal Recollections".

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• In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.

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  Heart, Light, Grows

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. 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, Love Is, Dust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Men, Sea

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

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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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Memories, Eye, Men

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1871). “Songs Before Sunrise”, p.43, London : F.S. Ellis

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• Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hope, Expectations, Speak

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• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Christianity, Pale

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• The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Puff, Development

  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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