...lamented. "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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark." As the love of nature is universal, so the pictures of it, which...

...: ' Thus, with the year, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of e'en or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me." It is said, in an article on blindness, in the...

...were I equall'd with them in renown. Blind Thamyris, and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, here under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged...goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, cloud instead, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and lor the...

...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...rose , Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead , and cver-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful nays of men Cut off, and for the...

...might not have included near the beginning of Book III the famous, beautiful lines on his blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...rose, Or flocks, or 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...

...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, Or flocks or 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...

...ILLUMINATION 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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...

...Milton says: 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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine...

...light, but, ironically, he is blind. Dolefully, he grieves his loss of sight as he reflects on nature. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...rose, Or flocks, 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...

...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, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"?...