Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Spring, Flower

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, Laughter, Flower

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

• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Summer, Pain

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

• 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

• 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)

• In friendship's fragrant garden,
  There are flowers of every hue.
  Each with its own fair beauty
  And its gift of joy for you.
  Friendship's Garden
  
  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

  Flower, Garden, Weather

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Baby, Flower, Hands

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

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