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
Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day. — 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
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
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
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere? For first of all the sphery… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Love, is it morning risen or night deceased That makes the mirth of this triumphant east? Is it bliss given or bitterness… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Before Parting A MONTH or twain to live on honeycomb Is pleasant; but one tires of scented time, Cold sweet recurrence of… — 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
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
