Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotations

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

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

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

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

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.