Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
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 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
There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and… — 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
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
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
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
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
