Algernon Charles Swinburne quotes

Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, and critic, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement and Victorian literature. Known for his controversial themes and innovative use of language, his works often explored taboo subjects. He influenced later poets with his distinctive style and passionate expression. Here are 101 of his quotes:

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

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

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

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

His speech is a burning fire.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

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

To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

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

God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. Go.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men?

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

Algernon Charles Swinburne