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“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

An Interlude.
Undated

“If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Though one were fair as roses
His beauty clouds and closes.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Garden of Proserpine.
Undated

“Is not Precedent indeed a King of men?”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Word from the Psalmist.
Undated

“Stately, kindly, lordly friend
Condescend
Here to sit by me.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

To a Cat.
Undated

“His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Second chorus, lines 57-58.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

“Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

"A Ballad of Francois Villon", lines 10, 20 and 30.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)

“Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Félise.
Undated

“The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Under the Microscope (1872)

“Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

"Anactoria", line 115.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)

“The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;
The rocks are left when he wastes the plain;
The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,
These remain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

A forsaken Garden.
Undated

“For in the days we know not of
Did fate begin
Weaving the web of days that wove
Your doom.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Faustine.
Undated

“I remember the way we parted,
The day and the way we met;
You hoped we were both broken-hearted
And knew we should both forget.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

An Interlude.
Undated

“From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no man lives forever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Garden of Proserpine.
Undated

“I. But he hears not. Now, my warrior guests,
I drink to the onward passage of his soul
Death. Had my hand turned coward or played me false,
This man that is my hand, and less than I
And less than he bloodguilty, this my death
Had been my husband's: now he has left it me.
[Drinks]
How innocent are all but he and I
No time is mine to tell you. Truth shall tell.
I pardon thee, my husband: pardon me. [Dies]”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Rosamund, Act 5, Scene 1.
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards (1899)

“She hath wasted with fire thine high places,
She hath hidden and marred and made sad
The fair limbs of the Loves, the fair faces
Of gods that were goodly and glad.
She slays, and her hands are not bloody;
She moves as a moon in the wane,
White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy,
Our Lady of Pain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

"Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)", line 353.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)

“A crown and justice? Night and day
Shall first be yoked together.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marino Faliero (1885).

“I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act II, Sc. 13.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)

“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

Étude Réaliste.
Undated

“I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

From his own Dedicatory Epistle to his Poems & Ballads 1904.