Algernon Charles Swinburne
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"Algernon Charles Swinburne" was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition/Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909.{{Cite web

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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.

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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

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Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;.

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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend.

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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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When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,/ The mother of months in meadow or plain/ Fills the shadows and windy places/ With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain . . .

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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.

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Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.

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I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.

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