Dreams Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

8 Dreams quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Algernon Charles Swinburne’s verses often swirl with intensity. These eight quotes on dreams capture his dramatic, sometimes haunting, imagination, offering a brief yet evocative literary escape.

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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

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“Ah, had I not taken my life up and given All that life gives and the years let go, The wind and…

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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.

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In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's…

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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

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“O all fair lovers about the world, There is none of you, none, that shall comfort me. My thoughts are as dead…

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“To sleep, to swim, and to dream, for ever.”

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

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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

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She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost,…

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A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little…

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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

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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…

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“As the dawn loves the sunlight that must cease Ere dawn again may rise and pass in peace; Must die that she being dead…

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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

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Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

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“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that for temporal…

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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

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“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…

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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in…

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To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling…

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