William Alabaster Quote

Tell them, my soul, the fears that make me quake:
The smouldering brimstone and the burning lake,
Life feeding death, death ever life devouring,
Torments not moved, unheard, yet still roaring,
God lost, hell found,—ever, never begun.
Now bid me into flame from smoke to run!


'Away, fear, with thy projects' (written 1597–8)


Tell them, my soul, the fears that make me quake: The smouldering brimstone and the burning lake, Life feeding death, death ever life devouring,...

Tell them, my soul, the fears that make me quake: The smouldering brimstone and the burning lake, Life feeding death, death ever life devouring,...

Tell them, my soul, the fears that make me quake: The smouldering brimstone and the burning lake, Life feeding death, death ever life devouring,...

Tell them, my soul, the fears that make me quake: The smouldering brimstone and the burning lake, Life feeding death, death ever life devouring,...