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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!

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Born: April 5, 1837

Died: April 10, 1909 (aged 72)

Bio: Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Known for:

Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Songs before Sunrise (1871)
Poems and ballads (1866)
Tristram of Lyonesse
William Blake (1868)

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