Without hope we live in desire.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Love can move the Sun and the stars.

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

Nature is the art of God.

To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.