Highest Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

“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

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

“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

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

— Algernon Charles Swinburne