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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

“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”

Hard Faces Grows White Red Garden Rose Blow East Pale Vow Pardon Fright Maidens Rose Garden Red Rose White Rose Snowdrops

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“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.”

Earth Lying Laughing Sun Bed Mouths Rose Bleeding Pleading Love Lies

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

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

“She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.”

Knows Art Hands Care Lying White Rose Ghost Snow Fallen My Sister Snow White

Book:Selected Verse

Source: Selected Verse

“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

Poetry Time Turns Love Is Darkness Our Lives Wife And Love Rose Fruit Lust Dust Division Crowns Our Love Corpses Thorns Old Days Barren Life Time Derision

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.”

Ifs Love Life Together Grows Marriage Our Lives Flower Singing Rose Weather Leafs Roses And Love Beautiful Rose

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.”

Life Eye Tears Bed Red Rose Lips His Eyes Pale

Book:Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne

Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne

“In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.”

Ifs Together Joy Grows Our Lives Flower Singing Fairs Garden Rose Weather Leafs Hue

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.”

Beauty Fairs Rose Clouds

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

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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