Quotation by A.C. Swinburne

O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,
That were athirst for sleep and no more life
And no more love, for peace and no more strife!
A.C. (Algernon Charles) Swinburne (1837–1909), British poet, critic. Ave atque Vale (l. 34–36). . .

Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
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