In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.
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Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold.Algernon Charles Swinburne
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His days work and his nights work are undone And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be 'killed off by one critique' or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better a sentiment in which I for one humbly but heartily concur.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
A babys feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angels lips to kiss, we think, A babys feet.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat, They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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