Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet; He that hath more, let him give; He… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Ah, had I not taken my life up and given All that life gives and the years let go, The wind and… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Behold, when thy face is made bare, he that loved thee shall hate; Thy face shall be no more fair at the… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“O brother, the gods were good to you. Sleep, and be glad while the world endures. Be well content as the years… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“And with light lips yet full of their swift smile, And hands that wist not though they dug a grave, Undid the… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“And her heart sprang in Iseult, and she drew With all her spirit and life the sunrise through And through her lips… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
“As the dawn loves the sunlight that must cease Ere dawn again may rise and pass in peace; Must die that she being dead… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that for temporal… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with the fingers… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share
