Today will die tomorrow. Algernon Charles Swinburne More Quotes by Algernon Charles Swinburne More Quotes From Algernon Charles Swinburne Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes. Algernon Charles Swinburne rose clouds beauty My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment. Algernon Charles Swinburne loss time giving 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 God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. Algernon Charles Swinburne issues deeds hands The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. Algernon Charles Swinburne tadpoles frogs poet For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. Algernon Charles Swinburne rain winter spring For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore. Algernon Charles Swinburne sun wind water A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. Algernon Charles Swinburne kissing angel baby 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 lying hands art Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . Algernon Charles Swinburne grief time men Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she. Algernon Charles Swinburne blind speak hope Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive. Algernon Charles Swinburne gratitude sleep sweet In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. Algernon Charles Swinburne awareness dream world If love were what the rose is, Algernon Charles Swinburne marriage love life Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease. Algernon Charles Swinburne flower heart giving Our way is where God knows Algernon Charles Swinburne and-love life hands We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Algernon Charles Swinburne drinking spring life O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, Algernon Charles Swinburne tears heart life Change lays not her hand upon truth. Algernon Charles Swinburne honesty truth hands When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, Algernon Charles Swinburne mother rain spring
