Remorse is the pain of sin.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin,
Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin,
Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;
Fear, for their scourge, read more

High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;
Fear, for their scourge, means villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave!

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows;
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows;
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison.