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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain,
Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune
That death smote silent when he smote again. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune
That death smote silent when he smote again. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
At the door of life, by the gate of breath,
There are worse things waiting for men than death. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
There are worse things waiting for men than death. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Though one were strong as seven,
He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
His speech is a burning fire.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
You have a face that suits a woman
For her soul's screen
The sort of beauty that's called human
In hell, Faustine. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
For her soul's screen
The sort of beauty that's called human
In hell, Faustine. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love laid his sleepless head
On a thorny rose bed:
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
On a thorny rose bed:
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fear that makes faith may break faith.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Where might is, the right is:
Long purses make strong swords.
Let weakness learn meekness:
God save the House of Lords! — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Long purses make strong swords.
Let weakness learn meekness:
God save the House of Lords! — Algernon Charles Swinburne
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire ...
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Change lays not her hand upon truth.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Today will die tomorrow.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Time stoops to no man's lure.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
All the world is bitter as a tear
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Our way is where God knows
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 your name.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Despair the twin-born of devotion.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt;
We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without? — Algernon Charles Swinburne
We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without? — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
For till the thunder and trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 your feet.. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
All I can give you I give;
Heart of my heart were it more,
More would be laid at your feet.. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Save his own soul he hath no star.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart
Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
For no man under the sky lives twice
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 is more cruel than lust.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she — Algernon Charles Swinburne
There shone one woman, and none but she — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love is more cruel than lust.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 of death
— 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
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne