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
1837–1909 England
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet.
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Also known as: Algernon Swinburne, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Swinburne, Swinburne, Charles Algernon
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain
When time and God give judgment.
Marino Faliero (1885)
Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool
Is but in folly stable.
Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)
Æschylus is above all things the poet of righteousness.
The Age of Shakespeare (1908)
Our way is where God knows
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day.
Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)
I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)
But God, if a God there be, is the substance of men which is man.
Songs before Sunrise (1871)
Surely most bitter of all sweet things thou art,
And sweetest thou of all things bitter, love.
Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)
Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.
Essays and Studies (1875)
Even love, the beloved Republic, that feeds upon freedom and lives.
Songs before Sunrise (1871)
His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)
Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)
Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron,
Shall a nation be moulded at last.
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems (1884)
The small dark body's Lesbian loveliness
That held the fire eternal.
For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Wilt thou fear that, and fear not my desire?
Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)
Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)
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