To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 15.
"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.
“The wretched gift eternity
Was thine — and thou hast borne it well.”
II.
Prometheus (1816)
Context: Titan! to thee the strife was given
Between the suffering and the will,
Which torture where they cannot kill;
And the inexorable Heaven,
And the deaf tyranny of Fate,
The ruling principle of Hate,
Which for its pleasure doth create
The things it may annihilate,
Refused thee even the boon to die:
The wretched gift eternity
Was thine — and thou hast borne it well.
All that the Thunderer wrung from thee
Was but the menace which flung back
On him the torments of thy rack;
The fate thou didst so well foresee,
But would not to appease him tell;
And in thy Silence was his Sentence,
And in his Soul a vain repentance,
And evil dread so ill dissembled,
That in his hand the lightnings trembled.
“You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”
When the Shoe Fits
Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’
“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers.”
"Israfel", st. 7 (1831).
“Heaven is a Christian-free eternity.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page91 (1820)
