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.
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Laurel is green for a season, And love is sweet for a day But love grows bitter with treason, And laurel outlives not May.Algernon Charles Swinburne
The sweetest flowers in all the world A babys hands.
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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
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The thorns he spares when the rose is taken The rocks are left when he wastes the plain The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken, These remain.
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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.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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