“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
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Famous Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
Source: Essays and Studies
“Despair the twin-born of devotion.”
Source: Poems and Ballads
Source: Songs Before Sunrise
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.”
Source: Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads
Source: Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle
“The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.”
Source: Poems and Ballads
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.”