While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.] — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
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 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
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure. — 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
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
