...agony associated with his own blindness - 'but not to me returns/ Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,/ Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...divine;/ But cloud instead, and ever-during dark/ Surround me' (m 41-6) - must have held some consolation for him - indeed may have been seen as providential,...

...blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or rhe sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose....Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Can anyone doubt that the exclusion...

...note. Thus with the year 40 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,...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial...

...note. Thus with the year 40 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,...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial...

...Book 3: 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,...ever-during dark Surrounds me. from the cheerful ways of men Cutoff, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me...

...blindness, and always in a tone of anguish and despondency characteristic of recent misfortune: — "... from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." It often depends on the surgeon whether...

...Note. Thus with the Year 40 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,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented...

...creator: 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,...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. (3.40-50) If Milton is sequestered in...

...at the beginning of the psalm. "August 8, 1653." 95 Paradise Lost, 3.45-47, in Complete Poems, 259. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...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 quite shut out.96 In Psalm...

...then, as the handicap serves instead to identify the poet more closely with the redeemed: But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from 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] The challenge to Melville...