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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) 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.

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

Breath, See, Spring, Sun, World

For winter's rains and ruins are over. . . And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

Cover, Rain, Spring, Under, Winter, Wood

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

Down, Kissing, Men, Mix, Mother, Sweet

His speech is a burning fire.

Burning, Fire, Speech

A young man with a very good past. [Fr. , Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe. ]

Beau, Man, Men, Passe, Past, Young

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

Moving, Ships, Sleep, Tide, Wind

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Infinite, Love, Mercies, Mercy

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

Blame, Forgotten, Kissing, Name, Names

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Begotten, Blossom, Flower, Spring, Time, Wins

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Fear, Hope, Thou

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,
All waters as the shore.

Shore, Sun, Water, Waters, Wind, Winds

In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

Drifted, Foam, Hands, Sand, Weather, Weed

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

King, Kings, Men, Precedent, Psalmist, Word

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran.

Came, Grief, Men, Ran, Time

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Blind, Hope, Knows, Speak

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

Broken, Day, Hoped, Met, Remember, Way

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.

Hear, Heard, Lapsing, Marriage, Sorrow, Theism

O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

Bed, Heart, Life, Tears, Thou

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

Artist, Dumb, Essence, Painter, Poet

Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

And Love, God, Hands, Knows, Life, Way

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