Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.
Source: Dolores, st. 20.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, (Apr 5 1837-1909), English poet, critic; He was the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt due to his outstanding prosodic innovations, e.g., insistent alliteration and sheer melodiousness.