Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

• Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Flower, Heart, Giving

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1352, Delphi Classics

• Love, as is told by the seers of old,
  Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
  Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
  Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Life, Heart

• O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
  That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
  My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
  Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
  Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Heart, Tears

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

• I that have love and no more
  Give you but love of you, sweet;
  He that hath more, let him give;
  He that hath wings, let him soar;
  Mine is the heart at your feet
  Here, that must love you to live.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Sweet, Love You

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

• 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!

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Spring, Drinking

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.41

• There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Heart, Coward, Herbs

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.178

• There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Rain, Heart

  'The Triumph of Time'

• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sweet, Heart, Feet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

• But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Heart, Poetry, Flesh

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.145, Delphi Classics

• No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Running, Heart, Fire

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901). “Songs before sunrise”

• In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Heart, Light, Grows

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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