“What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy should be dead!"”

“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”

“Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.”

“I weep for Adonais — he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!”

“To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.”

“Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale?”

“I should be blind if I did not perceive that some power as strong as the universe is parting us. What this power is, what it is called, I do not know. I know only that if I knelt down, beat my head on the floor, prayed, and cried out for mercy, I might move a mountain sooner than move that power. As nothing now could part me from Aniela but death, she must die. This may be very logical, but I do not consent to part from her.”

“I should have THOUGHT for Myself. Life is too cruel”

“In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.”

“O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?”