Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

From too much love of livingFrom hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever god...

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not ...

For till the thunder and trumpet be,Soul may divide from body, but not weOne from another

Today will die tomorrow.

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apartFlesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever...

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand sprea...

Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust;No thorns go as deep as t...

I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and div...