Quotes to inspire and reflect

So absolute she seems

Oft-times nothing profits more

Still govern thou my song,

There Leviathan

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

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Adam, the goodliest man of men since born

Not that fair field

He for God only, she for God in him.

Me miserable! which way shall I fly

Evil, be thou my good.

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks

Die he or justice must.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

Incensed with indignation Satan stood

Chaos umpire sits,

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

Black it stood as night,

To sit in darkness here

Long is the way

To perish rather, swallowed up and lost

With grave

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue

Pandemonium, the high capital

Mammon led them on,

Let none admire

Who overcomes

A shout that tore hell’s concave, and beyond

And when night

First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile

What though the field be lost?

What in me is dark

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

The troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming.

Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit

Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,

Rhyme being … but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre.

So when the sun in bed,

New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.