I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends. - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,
Such fleet things sweet!

Ask nothing more of me sweet;
All I can give you I give;
Heart of my heart were it more,
More would be laid at your feet..

In the change of years, in the coil of things, In the clamour and rumour of life to be, We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!