Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes


Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. - Algernon Charles Swinburne


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


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


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


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


Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal/ With cold immortal hands. - Algernon Charles Swinburne


Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven. - Algernon Charles Swinburne


I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea. - Algernon Charles Swinburne


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