Swinburne Quotes

“For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust;No thorns go as deep as the 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 divisionMake barren our lives.”

“For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust;No thorns go as deep as the 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 divisionMake barren our lives.”

“A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.”

“Let weakness learn meekness.”

“Change lays her hand not upon the truth.”

“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”

“Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.”

“By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.”

“I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.”

“Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.”