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A renowned Victorian poet known for his ornate style and romantic sentiments. Swinburne's works cover a wide range of themes including love, nature, and religion, and have had a profound impact on subsequent poets.

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All Men Life Heart Light Hands Ifs Love Rose Sleep Flower Grows May World Dies Dream Kissing Sea Spring Sun Sweet

Famous Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

“Today will die tomorrow.”

Today Dies Tomorrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.”

Dies Hope Speak Expectations

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”

Light Life Is Dies Dark Lust Dawn Lamps

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“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.”

Men World Light Eye Past Dies Memories Mountain Wellspring

Book:Songs Before Sunrise

Source: Songs Before Sunrise

“Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.”

Art Dies Alive Failing Kissing And Love Infinite Breaths Fruit Delight Range Queens Feds Perpetual Monstrous Barren Poisonous Kiss Of Death

Book:Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads

Source: Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads

“We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Men Today Joy Dies Tomorrow Sorrow Not Sure Lure Stoops Transience

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

About the Author

Born: April 5, 1837
Died: April 10, 1909
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 114

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Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)Related source material

Poems and BalladsRelated source material

Selected VerseRelated source material

Selections from SwinburneRelated source material

Selected poemsRelated source material

Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory EpistleRelated source material

The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose worksRelated source material

Songs Before SunriseRelated source material

Bothwell: A TragedyRelated source material

Essays and StudiesRelated source material

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