Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

• His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Sleep, Vision

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

• Love laid his sleepless head
  On a thorny rose bed:
  And his eyes with tears were red,
  And pale his lips as the dead.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Eye, Rose

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1884). “Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne”, New York, Crowell

• 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

• 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)

• Our way is where God knows
  And Love knows where:
  We are in Love's hand to-day.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Hands, And Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1871). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.200

• 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

• The loves and hours of the life of a man,
  They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Men, Sea

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.86, Carcanet

• 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

• At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Fear, Men

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.39, Psychology Press

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