 Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the...  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 179by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | Martha Stoddard Holmes - Social Science - 2010 - 245 pages
...in a tone of anguish and despondency characteristic of recent misfortune: — "... from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...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 fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Hannibal Hamlin - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...3.45-47, in Complete Poems, 259. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 284 pages
...closely with the redeemed: But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd. [Paradise Lost, 3-45-49]... | |
 | Thomas Gardner - 2005 - 324 pages
...and occlusion as revelation: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
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