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Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

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Faith speaks when hope dissembles: Faith lives when hope dies dead  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) A crown and justice? Night and day shall first be yoked together  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Wilt thou fear that, and fear not my desire?  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool is but in folly stable  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) This flower that smells of honey and the sea, white laurustine, seems in my hand to be a white star made of memory long ago lit in the heaven of dear times dead to me  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 Quotes) In this 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  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 Quotes) The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun’s dart clove her: love lies bleeding  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) What shall be done for sorrow With love whose race is run? Where help is none to borrow, what shall be done?  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 Quotes) The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) I have no remedy for fear; there grows no herb of help to heal a coward heart  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Ah, ah, thy beauty! Like a beast it bites, Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 Quotes) Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which: The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit; and gathering thorns they shake the tree at root; for words divide and rend, but silence is most noble till the end  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 Quotes) This I ever held worse that all certitude, to know not what the worst ahead might be  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame ere the change of things and thoughts requicken, time, thy name  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) Ah, thy beautiful hair! So was it once braided for me, for me; now for death is it crowned, only for death, lover and lord of thee  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 Quotes) For thee, o now a silent soul, my brother, take at my hands this garland and farewell. Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell, and chill the solemn Earth, a fatal mother  (Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes) 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 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 Quotes)
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