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" O all fair lovers about the world,
There is none of you, none, that shall comfort me.
My thoughts are as dead things, wrecked and whirled
Round and round in a gulf of the sea;
And still, through the sound and the straining stream,
Through the coil and chafe, they gleam in a dream,
The bright fine lips so cruelly curled,
And strange swift eyes where the soul sits free. "

Algernon Charles Swinburne , Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon


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Algernon Charles Swinburne quote : O all fair lovers about the world,<br />There is none of you, none, that shall comfort me. <br />My thoughts are as dead things, wrecked and whirled<br />Round and round in a gulf of the sea;<br />And still, through the sound and the straining stream,<br />Through the coil and chafe, they gleam in a dream,<br />The bright fine lips so cruelly curled, <br />And strange swift eyes where the soul sits free.