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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: April 5, 1837 Date of Death: April 10, 1909 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Algernon Charles Swinburne Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
Algernon Charles Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. Algernon Charles Swinburne 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 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 While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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