Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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)

• 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

• Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Infinite, Mercy

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.95, Carcanet

• 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'

• Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Night, Fire

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.114

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