Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes about Art

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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.

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.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dream, Song, Art

Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Art, Queens, Kissing

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

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.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Art, Lying, Hands

Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.153, Carcanet

Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes about Art

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