Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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)

• 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

• 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

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