"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!"

"The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."

"To live a life half dead, a living death."

"Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."

"Apt words have power to suage The tumors of a troubled mind."

"Wisest men Have erred, and by bad women been deceived."

"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all."

"What boots it at one gate to make defense, And at another to let in the foe?"

"My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them at rest."

"Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver; Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him Eyeless…"