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Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes about Life

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

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

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1884). “Selections from the Poetical Works of A.C. Swinburne”, New York, Crowell

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.39, Psychology Press

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.86, Carcanet

Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1871). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.200