
Canto V, lines 28–30 (tr. Charles S. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
"The Seed Growing Secretly".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: Tempests and windes and winter-nights
Vex not, that but One sees thee grow,
That One made all these lesser lights.
If those bright joys He singly sheds
On thee, were all met in one crown,
Both sun and stars would hide their heads;
And moons, though full, would get them down.
Canto V, lines 28–30 (tr. Charles S. Singleton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
To His Lute http://www.bartleby.com/40/198.html
(2nd August 1823) both from Songs
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
"The Rainbow".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair,
Forms turn to musick, clouds to smiles and air;
Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours
Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers.
Bright pledge of peace and sun-shine! the sure tye
Of thy Lord's hand, the object of his eye.
When I behold thee, though my light be dim,
Distant, and low, I can in thine see Him
Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne,
And mindes the covenant 'twixt all and One.
The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 7