Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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.

Angel

Baby

Kissing

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day’s work and his night’s work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Light

Night

Work

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

Grief

Men

Time

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

April And Spring

Flower Blossom

Spring

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Hands

Honesty

Truth

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

Autumn

Rain

Sweet

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

Expectations

Hope

Speak

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Fate

Rocks

Sea

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Break

Fear

May

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose’s, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Dust

Love Is

Time

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Angel

April And Spring

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Autumn

Awareness

Baby

Blood

Blow

Break

Broken

Broken Heart

Burning

Christianity

Compensation

Coward

Dark

Death

Delight

Desire

Dream

Drinking

Dust

Expectations

Experience

Eye

Failure

Fate

Fear

Fire

Flower

Flower Blossom

Forget

Friendship

Frogs

Garden

Giving

Glimpse

Grain

Gratitude

Greatness

Grief

Hands

Heart

Heartbreak

Herbs

Honesty

Hope

Infinite

Iron

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Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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.

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day’s work and his night’s work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose’s, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

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