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• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Song, Failure, Pages

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.64, Syracuse University Press

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• Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  World, Pagan, Pale

  'Hymn to Proserpine'.

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• Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sleep, Light, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1322, Delphi Classics

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• There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Rain, Heart

  'The Triumph of Time'

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• She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Lying, Hands

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.153, Carcanet

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• Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt;
  We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Faith, Truth, Believe

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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