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Death Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- 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…
- At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
- On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things,…
- Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours…
- There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.
- 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…
- For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love…
- 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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