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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Today will die tomorrow.


— Algernon Charles Swinburne


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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


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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


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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


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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


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


— Algernon Charles Swinburne


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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.


— Algernon Charles Swinburne


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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


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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.


— Algernon Charles Swinburne


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Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.


— Algernon Charles Swinburne


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The Tragedies of Algernon Charles Swinburne 5 vols. Poems and Ballads caused a sensation when it was first publiAlgernon Charles Swinburned especially the poems written in homage of Sappho of Lesbos such as "Anactoria" and "Sapphics": Moxon and Co. One of them A Baby's Death was set to music by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar as the song Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (London 5 April 1837 – London 10 April 1909) was an English poet playwright novelist and critic. He invented the roundel form wrote several novels and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909.

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