Algernon Swinburne
Algernon Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburnewas an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A controversial figure at the time, Swinburne was a sado-masochist and alcoholic and was obsessed with the Middle Ages and lesbianism...
change roses
Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
lady pain redeem
Come down and redeem us from virtue,/ Our Lady of Pain.
great lover men mother sweet
I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.