...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...herds or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of m»n Cut off, and for the book of knowledge...

...others, but of which his blindness had deprived him. " Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge...

...Milton, in his sublime poem of Paradise Lost : — " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge...

...himself. Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward. (3.40-44,51-52) Eve's "solemn Bird"...

...fills up the inner space (gratitude as it were for water and for sleep: for being able not to loathe "the sweet approach of even or morn, or sight of vernal bloom," "or flocks, or herds") — gratitude without an object, too, since these good things — love of our life...

...even as he denies their visible reality for him: not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine (PL 3.41-4) The difference between 'holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born' (named in the...

...grieves his loss of sight as he reflects on nature. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead. P. L, III, 40-45 He has been shunned from "the book of knowledge fair." Since the days of Aristotle,...

...though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"? Only Autumn responds...

...genius by whose example he tells us he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." But he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing...

...the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose...herds or human face divine; / But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening...