In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
And born in bed, in bed we die;
The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe. [ Isaac De Benserade ]

Mysterious to all thought,
A mother's prime of bliss,
When to her eager lips is brought
Her infant's thrilling kiss. [ Keble ]

Alas by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can never a transport know,
That never feels a pain. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health. [ James Thomson ]

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of paradise that has survived the fall. [ Cowper ]

Health is the vital principle of bliss. [ Thomson ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss. [ Byron ]

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. [ Milton ]

And for our country 'tis a bliss to file. [ Homer ]

Bliss is the same, in subject or in king. [ Pope ]

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind. [ Goldsmith ]

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king. [ Pope ]

Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea.
They were, - they are, - they yet shall be. [ Montgomery ]

Every one speaks of it, - who has known it? [ Mme. Necker ]

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown. [ Quarles ]

He little merits bliss who others can annoy. [ Thomson ]

Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone, thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. [ Milton ]

The bliss that can be told is but half-bliss. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. [ Milton ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss. [ Pollok ]

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! [ Burns ]

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease.
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. [ Pope ]

Kiss rhymes to bliss in fact, as well as verse. [ Byron ]

Where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise. [ Gray ]

That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude. [ Wordsworth ]

Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]

Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. [ Herbert ]

They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
And until they can show me some happier planet.
More social and bright, I'll content me with this. [ Moore ]

Some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadow's bliss. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who falls from all he knows of bliss, cares little into what abyss. [ Byron ]

You who follow wealth and power with unremitting ardour,
The more in this you look for bliss, you leave your view the farther. [ Burns ]

Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss even of a moment still is bliss. [ Joanna Baillie ]

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloyed? [ Colton ]

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys: superior wisdom is superior bliss. [ Young ]

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. [ Chapin ]

Such, whose sole bliss is eating, who can give but that one brutal reason why they live. [ Juvenal ]

Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]

The virtue of widows is a laborious virtue: they have to combat constantly with the remembrance of past bliss. [ St. Jerome ]

To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. [ Rückert ]

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. [ Geibel ]

What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever deepening in the companionship of His thought and bliss, from glory to glory - could we desire more? [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]

If one could look a while through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of paradise; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing, how would his soul be exhilarated and transported with joy. [ Watson ]