Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

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• Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Body, Twins, Spirit

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Today will die tomorrow.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Today, Tomorrow, Dies

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

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  Greatness, Musician, Poet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.59, Chatto & Windus

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• Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

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  Fate, Rocks, Sea

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• 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

  Broken, Way, Remember

  'An Interlude'

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• Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, Flower Blossom, April And Spring

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an
  end

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  Long, Enough, Ends

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.410, Carcanet

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• 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

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• I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

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  Dream, Laughter, Flower

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

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  Hands, Lays

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Poems and Ballads, [first Series].”, p.343

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• The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

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  Baby, Flower, Hands

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• Time stoops to no man's lure.

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  Men, Stoops, Lure

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192

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• If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
  Our lives would grow together
  In sad or singing weather.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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• Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

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  Loyalty, Glimpse, Grain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1968). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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• There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

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  Death, Sleep, Stronger

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Poems and Ballads”, p.84

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• Let weakness learn meekness.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Experience, Weakness, Meekness

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1275, Delphi Classics

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

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  Time, Spring, Flower

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

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  Hope, Speak, Blind

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1418, Delphi Classics

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• In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

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  Dream, World, Awareness

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

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• In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

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  Dream, Song, Art

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

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• From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Motivational, Success, Thanksgiving

  "The Garden of Proserpine" l. 81 (1866)

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• If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

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  Queens, Kings, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Fear that makes faith may break faith.

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  Fear, May, Break

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52

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• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Kissing, Names, Blame

  'An Interlude'

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• 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.

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  Baby, Angel, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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