...worship womankind studiously forgets its darker sisters. They seem in a sense to typify that veiled Melancholy: Whose saintly visage is too bright To...of human sight, And, therefore, to our weaker view O'er-laid with black. Yet the world must heed these daughters of sorrow, from the primal black All-Mother...

...dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.0 10 But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight;0 And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue.0 Black, but such...

...Strolling beside her, Kathryn Gye recited pensively, 'Hail thou goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.' 'Milton?' June asked. 'Yes, I majored in the seventeenth-century...

...commerce with the music of the spheres Contemplation comes from Milton's penseroso figure: divinest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ' Poetry comes from the blackness, the dark pause between the...