Samson Agonistes

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,Without all hope of day!

— Samson Agonistes

The sun to me is darkHid in her vacant interlunar cave.

— Samson Agonistes

To live a life half dead, a living death.

— Samson Agonistes

Ran on embattled armies clad in iron,Made arms ridiculous.

— Samson Agonistes

Apt words have power to suageThe tumors of a troubled mind.

— Samson Agonistes

Wisest menHave erred, and by bad women been deceived.

— Samson Agonistes

Just are the ways of God, Unless there be who think not God at all.

— Samson Agonistes

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

— Samson Agonistes

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

— Samson Agonistes

But who is this, what thing of sea or land?Her harbinger?

— Samson Agonistes

Dalila: In argument with men a woman everSamson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!

— Samson Agonistes

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed,Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

— Samson Agonistes

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,Love once possessed.

— Samson Agonistes

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;Not wedlock-treachery.

— Samson Agonistes

The way to know were not to see, but taste.

— Samson Agonistes

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but doWhat then thou would'st.

— Samson Agonistes

He’s gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

— Samson Agonistes

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

— Samson Agonistes

Suspense in news is torture.

— Samson Agonistes

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wailAnd what may quiet us in a death so noble.

— Samson Agonistes

All is best, though we oft doubt,Of highest Wisdom brings about.

— Samson Agonistes