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


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

Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

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

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

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

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