There lived a singer in France of old; By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold; There shone one woman, and none but she.
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sleep and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet give thanks thou hast no more to live And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
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A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
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Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow What hast thou found in thine heart to sing.
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I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep; Of what may come hereafter; For men that sow and reap.
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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.
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