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
men together three
While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.
men joy sorrow
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
kings men precedent
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
men stoops lure
Time stoops to no man's lure.
men past young
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
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.
time grief men
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
life men sea
The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
life men doors
At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.
english-poet glory man
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
barren corpses days death division loves marriage time turns
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
sleep light heaven
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
moving sleep wind
I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
dream song art
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.