138 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

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

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

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

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.