
p. 10
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, st. 4.
p. 10
“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”
“The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”
Fragment in Plutarch De facie in orbe lunae, 929b, as quoted in The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005), p. 23
“Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.”
Canto II, line 13.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)