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• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Song, Failure, Pages

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.64, Syracuse University Press

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• Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  World, Pagan, Pale

  'Hymn to Proserpine'.

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• We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sleep, Light, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1322, Delphi Classics

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• But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Heart, Poetry, Flesh

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.145, Delphi Classics

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• Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt;
  We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Faith, Truth, Believe

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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