Egremont’s Countess can controll The flames of Hell that round me roll; If she refuse, I still go on Till the Heavens & Earth are gone, Still admir’d by Noble minds, Follow’d by Envy on the winds, Re-engrav’d Time after…
Thou waterest him with Tears: He struggles into Life, On cloudy Doubts and Reasoning Cares, That end in endless Strife.
Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce, And dost not know the Garment from the Man; Every Harlot was a Virgin once, Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan. Tho’ thou art Worship’d by the Names Divine Of…
My Eternal Man set in Repose The Female from his darkness rose And She found me beneath a Tree A Mandrake & in her Veil hid me Serpent Reasonings us entice Of Good & Evil: Virtue & Vice Doubt Self…
Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise, Against the Accusers chief desire, Who walkd among the Stones of Fire. Jehovahs Finger Wrote the Law; Then Wept! then rose in Zeal & Awe, And the Dead Corpse…
In Heaven the only Art of Living Is Forgetting & Forgiving; But if you on Earth Forgive You shall not find where to Live.
I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate Built in Jerusalem’s wall.
I stood among my valleys of the south, And saw a flame of fire, even as a Wheel Of fire surrounding all the heavens: it went From west to east against the current of Creation, and devour’d all things in…
I saw a Monk of Charlemaine Arise before my sight: I talk’d with the Grey Monk as we stood In beams of infernal light. Gibbon arose with a lash of steel, And Voltaire with a racking wheel; The Schools, in…
Each Man is in his Spectre’s power Untill the arrival of that hour When his Humanity awake, And cast his Spectre into the Lake.
