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Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.] - Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologie, probably the origin of the phrase "beatific vision" I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. - Bible, Hosea (ch. XII, v. 10) Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXIX, v. 18) And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. - Robert Burns, The Vision (last lines) The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. - John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 238) So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear. - John Dyer, Gronger Hill (l. 884) Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul. - Thomas Gray, The Bard (III, 1, l. 11) I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter! I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought! Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed! - James Clarence Harvey, Incompleteness Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And say, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said-- "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright, Of that rare happiness, which even on earth Heaven gives to those it loves. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5) An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went. - James Russell Lowell, She Came and Went Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 628) O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 763) My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. - Thomas Love Peacock, Castles in the Air (st. 1) Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 9) Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Prospero at IV, i) Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! - Horace Smith and James Smith, Rejected Addresses--An Address without a Phoenix--By "S.T.P.", (not an imitation, initials used to puzzle critics) But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. - William Wordsworth, Dion (V) Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade! - Edward Young, Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job (l. 187)
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