The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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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
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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