John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2546 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2546 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature’s works, to me expung’d and raz’d, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40. |