Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Heart's ease and heart's desire and heart's grief, I have given you, and leave you, a little leaf.”

“I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.”

“Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams of dreams.”

“Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran.”

“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust.”

“A little soul for a little bears up this life for a little while.”

“Change is the pulse of life, and the sea is its rhythm.”

“There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.”

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

“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade.”

“I shall remember while the light lives yet, And in the night time I shall not forget.”

“Before the beginning of years, there came to the making of man, Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran.”

“Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

“From the languor of thy passion, From the paradise of thy pain, Give us a share of thy compassion, Give us a taste of thy wine.”

“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath.”

“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”