Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
Change in a trice
The lilies and languors of virtue
For the raptures and roses of vice.
The lilies and languors of virtue
For the raptures and roses of vice.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars
Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
Algernon Charles Swinburne