Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
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A creed is a rod, And a crown is of night; But this thing is God; To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.Algernon Charles Swinburne
Let us rise up and part she will not know. Let us go seaward as the great winds go, Full of blown sand and foam.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
For a day and a night and a morrow, That his strength might endure for a span; With travail and heavy sorrow, The holy spirit of man.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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.
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