You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosoph...y. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?... Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies!-- Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul--half a drop! ah, my Christ!--... Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!-- Yet will I call on him!--O, spare me, Lucifer!-- Where is it now? 'T is gone; and see where God Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!-- Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,... And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease and midnight never come! Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is most true, what we call Cupid's dart An image is, which for ourselves we carve... And, fools, adore in temple of our heart,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True, that true beauty virtue is indeed, Whereof this beauty can be but a shade,... Which elements with mortal mixture breed. True, that on earth we are but pilgrims made, And should in soul up to our country move. True, and yet true that I must Stella love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still doth the soul, from its lone fastness high, Upon our life a ruling effluence send.... And when it fails, fight as we will, we die; And while it lasts, we cannot wholly end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »