True repentance is to cease from sinning.

True repentance is to cease from sinning.

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.

When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.

The sinning is the best part of repentance

The sinning is the best part of repentance

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking.
I shall be out of heart shortly, read more

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking.
I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no
strength to repent.

Repentance is good, but innocence better

Repentance is good, but innocence better

Sudden friendship, sure repentance.

Sudden friendship, sure repentance.

Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.

Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.