138 Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

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.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

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.

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...

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