Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• 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

• 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

• Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sleep, Light, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1322, Delphi Classics

• Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Gratitude, Sweet, Sleep

  'Ave atque Vale' st. 17

• Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.78, Psychology Press

• In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, Song, Art

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

• I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Moving, Sleep, Wind

  'The Triumph of Time'

• There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Death, Sleep, Stronger

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Poems and Ballads”, p.84

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