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
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
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The… — 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
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
