“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...”

“the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.”

“the dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars”

“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”

“The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.”

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

“[He]Spoke and rose to full height, sword in air,Then cleft the man's brow square between the templesCutting his head in two -- a dreadful gashBetween the cheeks all beardless. Earth resoundedQuivering at the great shock of his weightAs he went tumbling down in all his armor,Drenched with blood and brains; in equal halvesHis head hung this and that way from his shoulders.”