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Love Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Algernon Charles Swinburne writes love as a bleeding rose in a bed, beautiful yet tied to death. He speaks of love's endless mercies and also its inevitable end after time changes. His verses blend passion with the idea that love, like all things, must eventually fade.

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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

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Change lays not her hand upon truth.

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Love is more cruel than lust.

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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end

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The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

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Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

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Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.

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If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing…

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The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

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There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and…

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O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless…

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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That…

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Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,…

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If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And…

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“Fierce midnights and famishing morrows, And the loves that complete and control All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows That…

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Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove…

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I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet; He that hath more, let him give; He…

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“O brother, the gods were good to you. Sleep, and be glad while the world endures. Be well content as the years…

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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass…

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

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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…

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We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods…

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“From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That…

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“If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together, In sad or singing…

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For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a…

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“Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf…

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“To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere? For first of all the sphery…

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“Before Parting A MONTH or twain to live on honeycomb Is pleasant; but one tires of scented time, Cold sweet recurrence of…

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“She might come in to bride-bed: and he laughed, As one that wist not well of wise love's craft, And bade all…

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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…

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“Love, is it morning risen or night deceased That makes the mirth of this triumphant east? Is it bliss given or bitterness…

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“A Match If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad…

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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…

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Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as…

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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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“Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not some…

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

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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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