Quotes to inspire and reflect

When I consider how my light is spent,

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Licence they mean when they cry liberty;

Time the subtle thief of youth.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail.

Just are the ways of God,

The sun to me is dark

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him

The first and wisest of them all professed

The childhood shows the man,

He who seeking asses found a kingdom.

The world was all before them, where to choose

But on occasion’s forelock watchful wait.

The evening star,

A paradise within thee, happier far.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy

… Yet I shall temper so

O fairest of creation, last and best

Flesh of flesh,

Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat

Oft-times nothing profits more

So absolute she seems

There Leviathan

Still govern thou my song,

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light,

What if earth

My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee

Him there they found

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth

Adam, the goodliest man of men since born

He for God only, she for God in him.

Not that fair field

Evil, be thou my good.

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks

Me miserable! which way shall I fly

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,

Die he or justice must.

Chaos umpire sits,

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

Black it stood as night,

Incensed with indignation Satan stood

Long is the way

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

With grave

To sit in darkness here