Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburnewas an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A controversial figure at the time, Swinburne was a sado-masochist and alcoholic and was obsessed with the Middle Ages and lesbianism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 April 1837
kings men precedent
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
atheism beast
The beast faith lives on its own dung.
sweet rain autumn
Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.
experience weakness meekness
Let weakness learn meekness.
faith truth believe
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?
long enough ends
I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end
men stoops lure
Time stoops to no man's lure.
spring world sun
The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
men past young
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
love rain heart
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.
wise wisdom safety
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
fate men compensation
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.
wind water sun
For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
hands lays
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.