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• In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Weed, Hands, Weather

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.715, Delphi Classics

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• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

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  Life, Summer, Pain

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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• A young man with a very good past.
  [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

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  Past, Men, Young

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• When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
  The mother of months in meadow or plain
  Fills the shadows and windy places
  With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Spring, Rain

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

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  Men, Political, Together

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.224, Delphi Classics

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• Change lays not her hand upon truth.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Truth, Honesty, Hands

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
  That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
  My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
  Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
  Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

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  Life, Heart, Tears

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Lying, Self, Strange

  "A Forsaken Garden" l. 79 (1878)

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• Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain,
  Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune
  That death smote silent when he smote again.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sweet, Rain, Autumn

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1311, Delphi Classics

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• Our way is where God knows
  And Love knows where:
  We are in Love's hand to-day.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Hands, And Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1871). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.200

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• We, drinking love at the furthest springs,
  Covered with love as a covering tree,
  We had grown as gods, as the gods above,
  Filled from the heart to the lips with love,
  Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings,
  O love, my love, had you loved but me!

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Spring, Drinking

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.41

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• Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Flower, Heart, Giving

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1352, Delphi Classics

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• God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hands, Issues, Deeds

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1910). “The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne...: Tragedies: The Queen Mother; Rosamond; Chastelard; Bothwell; Mary Stuart; Locrine; The Sisters; Marino Faliero”

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• We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Friendship, Skulls, Puff

  'Essays and Studies' (1875) 'Matthew Arnold'

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• Wan February with weeping cheer,
  Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
  Down misty roads of mire and rime,
  Before thy pale and fitful face
  The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
  Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
  Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
  But lit with hopes that light the year's.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Morning, Cheer, Eye

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wings, Goal, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Running, Heart, Fire

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901). “Songs before sunrise”

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• White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Garden, White

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• Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Beauty, Clouds, Rose

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Office, Religion, Wipe

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.51, Syracuse University Press

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

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  Love, Night, Fire

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.114

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• Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Lying, Laughing, Rose

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1343, Delphi Classics

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• But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

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  Heart, Poetry, Flesh

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.145, Delphi Classics

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