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Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
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To have known love, how bitter a thing it is.
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If you were April's lady,
And I were lord in May.
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O splendid and sterile Dolores,
Our Lady of Pain.
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We are not sure of sorrow,
And joy was never sure.
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Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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I am the queen Aholibah
My lips kissed dumb the word of Ah.
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Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.
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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
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His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar,
Death lies dead.
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Even love, the beloved Republic, that feeds upon freedom lives.
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A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
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Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,
Such fleet things sweet!
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A crown and justice? Night and day
Shall first be yoked together.
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For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.
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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
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For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.
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No thorns go as deep as a rose's,
And love is more cruel than lust.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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I shall never be friends again with roses;
I shall loathe sweet tunes.
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end.
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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Born:
April 5, 1837
Died:
April 10, 1909
(aged 72)
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