Algernon Charles Swinburne quotes

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Change lays her hand not upon the truth. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
His speech is a burning fire. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marvellous mercies and infinite love. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Despair the twin-born of devotion. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. Go. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Forget that I remember And dream that I forget. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne