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“Despair the twin-born of devotion.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

"Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)", line 107.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)

“A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Referring to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Under the Microscope (1872)

“Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.

“Who knows but on their sleep may rise
Such light as never heaven let through
To lighten earth from Paradise?”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Baby's Death.
Undated

“To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Under the Microscope (1872)

“Forget that I remember
And dream that I forget.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

"Rococo", lines 15-16.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)

“His speech is a burning fire.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Second chorus, line 51.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

“Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron,
Shall a nation be moulded at last.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Word for the Country.
Undated

“Marvellous mercies and infinite love.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Les Noyades.
Undated

“Our way is where God knows
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love at Sea.
Undated

“Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat,
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Étude Réaliste.
Undated

“Did I bid thee
Mock, and forget me for thy friend — I say not,
King? Is thy heart so light and lean a thing,
So loose in faith and faint in love? I bade thee
Stand to me, help me, hold my hand in thine
And give my heart back answer. This it is,
Old friend and fool, that gnaws my life in twain —
The worm that writhes and feeds about my heart —
The devil and God are crying in either ear
One murderous word for ever, night and day,
Dark day and deadly night and deadly day,
Can she love thee who slewest her father? I
Love her.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

“Change lays not her hand upon truth.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne Dedication

Dedication.
Undated

“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Nephelidia", line 16, from The Heptalogia (1880); Swinburne intended "Nephelidia" as a self-parody.

“It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be "killed off by one critique" or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better; a sentiment in which I for one humbly but heartily concur.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Under the Microscope (1872)

“Time found our tired love sleeping,
And kissed away his breath;
But what should we do weeping,
Though light love sleep to death?
We have drained his lips at leisure,
Till there's not left to drain
A single sob of pleasure,
A single pulse of pain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

"Rococo", lines 17-24.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)

“When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

First chorus, line 65.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

“They do not ill, being lords of ours, to slay
Me; nay, they could not spare: but thee to slay,
To spill thy strong young life for truth to me,
In all men's eyes would mark them monstrous: thou
Must live, and serve my slayers, and serving them
Sustain my memory by the proof — if God
Shall give thee grace to prove it — that thy name,
Thy father's name and mine, in true men's ears
Rings truth, and means not treason.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Faliero, Act V. Sc. 3.
Marino Faliero (1885)

“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)