Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes


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 for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne Men 87
We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. Algernon Charles Swinburne Nudity 84
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. Algernon Charles Swinburne Marriage 83
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean. Algernon Charles Swinburne Christianity 61
A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields ... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people. Algernon Charles Swinburne 58
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. Algernon Charles Swinburne Uncategorized 53
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. Algernon Charles Swinburne Hold 44
Today will die tomorrow. Algernon Charles Swinburne Present 39

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