Flower Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

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

“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