Paradise Lost : Book VIII. (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's earSo charming left his voice, that he a whileThought him still speaking, still stood ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's earSo charming left his voice, that he a whileThought him still speaking, still stood ...
I.Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climbThe steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!Ah! who can tell ...
--A COSTLY good ; that none e'er bought or soldFor gem, or pearl, or miser's store, twice told :Save certain ...
ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,Bringing a curious compound to explore.--'Behold ! said he, as from his ...
Such oranges! so fresh and sweet, So large and lovely--and so cheap! They lay in one delicious heap, And added to the sumptuous ...
Of sentences that stir my bile, Of phrases I detest, There's one beyond all others vile; "He did it for the best." Of course he did: I don't suppose, Nor can you think I should, The man's among my deadliest foes, Or is not fairly good. Of course he did it for the best: What should he do it for? But did he do it? that's the test: I ask to know no more. Alas! he did: and here am I, Quite ruined, half disgraced; And you can really ask me why My wrath is not effaced: And there is he, good worthy man, With self-esteem possessed, Still saying, as of course he can, "I did it for the best." No evil deed was ever done, Or honest man withstood, Since first this weary world begun, Except for someone's good. And can it signify to me Whose good he did it for? Mine was it? thus 'twas wont to be, And will be ever more. When inoffensive people plant A dagger in your breast, Your good is what they really want: They do it for the best. (James Kenneth Stephen)
Patience, when heathen darkness veil'd the world,Was that high spirit of unbending pride,That dar'd to err, but was asham'd to ...
TO MY READERS,-MY Life has been a wild, strange life,Now lulled in love-now wrapt in strife;I've had my dreams as ...
'Tis past—and the recording angel bearsTo Heaven the record of another year—Another year of nature's and of mine!Nature has known ...
LThis is the perfect crown of all things here! So proud am I, in my own self-esteem, I touch myself ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. 22.11 Like John on Patmos, brooding on the Four Last ...
OF Public Opinion; Of a calm and cool fiat, sooner or later, (How impassive! How certain and final!) Of the ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
IS reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish ...
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting This various world with as inconstant ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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