I am looking for the exact source of a quotation "these things are
over and no longer mine". I know it is from a poem by AC Swinburne and
is quoted at the beginning of the Nevil Shute novel Requiem for a
Wren. I would like the title  and complete text of the poem from which
it is taken.

Hello.

The exact line is "These things are over, and no more mine."

It's the 368th line of the poem "The Triumph of Time" by Algernon
Charles Swinburne (1837-1909).

The complete text of "The Triumph of Time" is available from
Representative Poetry Online, hosted by the University of Toronto
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2104.html

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search strategy:
swinburne, "things are over"

I hope this helps.