...lamentation : - 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,...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...

...• 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 clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surround me." So far, however, we have attended merely to tb»...

...year, Seasons return ; but not to me returns ' , Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or eight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surround me Another example may be seen in the beautiful little poem of Covvper, on...

...from Milton's lamentation for the loss of sight. Thus with the year, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight ofvernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and...

...possibility that the apostrophes are vain, that though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"? Only Autumn responds and appears...

...outward sight. The passage in Milton incorporates the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...face divine; / But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening of nature, but...

...he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned 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 he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing...

...understand without his assistance. And surely the agony associated with his own blindness - 'but not to me returns/ Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,/...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, inasmuch...

...insight. 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,...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book...

...role and not the illusion of not being there at all. 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 Summers Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...