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Algernon Charles Swinburne on Beauty

1837–1909 England

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Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

Though one were fair as roses
His beauty clouds and closes.

Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

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