"And lo, between the sundawn and the sun……" — Algernon Charles Swinburne
"And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one."
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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72 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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…
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Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And…
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it,…
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any…
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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with…
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For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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