Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Kissing

Quotes about: Kissing

• To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Kissing, Missing, Shame

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873). “Poems and Ballads”, p.175

• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Baby, Angel, Kissing

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

• Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Queens, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

• I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sweet, Kissing, Littles

• 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'

• I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Sweet, Kissing

  'The Triumph of Time'

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