bliss (n.)
- affability
- agreeability
- agreeableness
- amenity
- amiability
- amicability
- beatification
- beatitude
- bewitchment
- blessedness
- blissfulness
- blitheness
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- compatibility
- complaisance
- congeniality
- cordiality
- delectation
- delight
- ecstasy
- elation
- elysium
- empyrean
- enchantment
- enjoyableness
- enjoyment
- exaltation
- exhilaration
- exuberance
- felicitousness
- felicity
- gaiety
- geniality
- gladness
- glee
- goodness
- graciousness
- happiness
- harmoniousness
- harmony
- heaven
- intoxication
- joy
- joyfulness
- joyousness
- mellowness
- niceness
- nirvana
- paradise
- pleasance
- pleasantness
- pleasantry
- pleasingness
- pleasure
- rapport
- rapture
- ravishment
- spirituality
- sunshine
- sweetness
- transport
How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
Within whose circuit is Elysium
And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!
Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.
The hues of bliss more brightly glow,
Chastised by sabler tints of woe.
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind.
Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve,—how exquisite the bliss!
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time:
The living throne, the sapphire blaze,
Where angels tremble while they gaze,
He saw; but blasted with excess of light,
Closed his eyes in endless night.
Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!
My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind:
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd,
A stranger yet to pain!
I feel the gales that from ye blow
A momentary bliss bestow.
Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.
We thinke no greater blisse then such
To be as be we would,
When blessed none but such as be
The same as be they should.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
The sum of earthly bliss.
My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind:
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell:
'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!
What though my winged hours of bliss have been
Like angel visits, few and far between.
