Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes about Love

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Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, Life, Heart

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, Life, Marriage

"A Match" l. 1 (1866)

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, Infinite, Mercy

Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.95, Carcanet

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

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, Night, Fire

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.114

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.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, Rain, Heart

'The Triumph of Time'

Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes about Love

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