Best Algernon Charles Swinburne Sayings
- In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like… Break
- For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore. All
- For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. Begins
- From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives… Brief
- Today will die tomorrow. Die
- If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet… Down
- And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten… Best
- She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who… Art
- Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness… Breath
- Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at… All
- I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a… Always Touch
- But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. Apart
- I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I… Barren
- Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor… Any
- For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses,… All
- Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . Beginning
- For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love… Barren
- Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she. Blind
- Change lays not her hand upon truth. Change
- Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee. Broken
- Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things. Glory
- Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. Barren