He yearns helplessly for the "Blisses strong and soft" which he has known he was passing by, but of which the full meaning never reached him until now.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Out of sight it lay bare for a fond hand to kiss its sweet keen line: life held some Blisses it could promise him yet.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
An awful sense of desolation falls, for I feel dry earth underfoot, and thin air, and I hear the sea moaning for me, but turn where I will I cannot see nor reach it: it lies beyond a lost path, and the glories, Blisses, and strengths it gives me wither and die.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman