29 ordspråk av Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne föddes den
5 april 1837 och dog den 10 april
1909 - English writer
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Here, where the world is quiet;/ Here, where all trouble seems/ Dead winds' and spent waves' riot/ In doubtful dreams of dreams.
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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I am that which began:/ Out of me the years roll;/ Out of me God and man;/ I am equal and whole;/ God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.
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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.
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend.
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I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
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Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
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Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal/ With cold immortal hands.
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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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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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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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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 . . .
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Where might is, the right is:/ Long purses make strong swords./ Let weakness learn meekness:/ God save the House of Lords!
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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
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