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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

“No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.”

Heart Done Light Running Spirit Turns Race Sun Fire Grace Air Companionship Blast

Book:Songs Before Sunrise

Source: Songs Before Sunrise

“In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.”

Heart Light Grows

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

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

“There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.”

Love Heart Sea Land Rain Gold Singers France Sand One Woman Heart Love

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.”

Giving Heart I Can Would Be Asks Feet Sweet My Heart

Book:Selections from Swinburne

Source: Selections from Swinburne

“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.”

Heart Poetry My Heart Flesh

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

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

“We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!”

Life Heart Hands Tree Spring Filled Wings Drinking Lips Warm Covered Covering

Book:Poems and Ballads

Source: Poems and Ballads

“Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.”

Love Life Heart Sky Cold Gold Rounds One Time Butterfly Weaving Seers Old Love

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.”

Life Firsts Heart Done Tears My Heart Bed Fairs Hunger God Love Plague

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

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

“I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet; He that hath more, let him give; He that hath wings, let him soar; Mine is the heart at your feet Here, that must love you to live.”

Life Giving Heart Feet Love You Mines Sweet Wings Live Life Soar

Book:Selections from Swinburne

Source: Selections from Swinburne

“Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.”

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

“Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.”

Giving Heart Pleasure Flower Ease Pansies

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

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

“There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.”

Heart Helping Grows Heal Coward Herbs

Book:Bothwell: A Tragedy

Source: Bothwell: A Tragedy

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

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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