“The place that the Lord sat on was simple, on the earth, barren and desert, alone in wilderness; his clothing was ample and full seemly, as falleth to a Lord; the colour of his cloth was blue as azure, most sad and fair. his cheer was merciful; the colour of his face was fair-brown, — with full seemly features; his eyes were black, most fair and seemly, shewing full of lovely pity, and, within him, an high Regard, long and broad, all full of endless heavens. And the lovely looking wherewith He looked upon His Servant continually, — and especially in his falling, — methought it might melt our hearts for love and burst them in two for joy. The fair looking shewed of a seemly mingledness which was marvellous to behold: the one was Ruth and Pity, the other was Joy and Bliss. The Joy and Bliss passeth as far Ruth and Pity as Heaven is above earth: the Pity was earthly and the Bliss was heavenly.”

The Sixth Revelation, Chapter 14

The Tenth Revelation, Chapter 24

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 167–173

"The God in the Bowl" (1952)

The Eighth Revelation, Chapter 16

Nominating speech for Blaine for President, at the Republican National Convention (15 June 1876).

A Metrical Version of Psalm 104, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Summations, Chapter 51

Canto II, stanza 16 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)