Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;. -Algernon Charles Swinburne

 

Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;.


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For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lover and lover,/ The light that loses, the night that wins.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisses/ And I have forgotten your name.

Algernon Charles Swinburne