O quanta qualia sunt illa sabbata, Quae semper celebrat superna curia. O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blesse'  d ones see.

-Abelard, Peter
Hymnarius Paraclitensis, bk.1, no.29,'Sabbato.  Ad Vesperas' (translated by J M Neale).

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine. Et nos amours, faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne? La joie venait toujours apre'  s la peine. Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine. And our loves, must I remember them? Joy always came after pain.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les  Alcools,'Le Pont Mirabeau'.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  Of  A E Housman.'A  Worcestershire Lad', collected in Forewords and  Afterwords (1973).

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 38:7.

Great is the L, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 48:1^2.

Create in me a clean heart,O God; and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto methe joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Thenwill Iteachtransgressorsthy ways; and sinnersshall be converted unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:10^13.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms126:5^6.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:7.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the L hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The L hath made bare his holyarm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDIsaiah 52:9^10.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 55:12.

The Spirit of the Lord G isuponme; becausethe Lhath anointed meto preach good tidings untothemeek; he hath sent me, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;To proclaim the acceptable yearofthe L, and the dayof vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for thespirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the L, that he might be glorified.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODORD ORDORDIsaiah 61:1^3.

His lord said unto him,Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will maketheerulerover many things: enter thou intothejoy of thy lord.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 25:21.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding inthefield, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shoneround about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of Davida Saviour, which is Christthe Lord. And thisshall be a sign unto you;Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying ina manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, theshepherdssaid onetoanother,Let usnowgo even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 2:8^15.

Either what womanhaving ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep thehouse, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:8^10.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

-Blake,William
  MS Notebooks, p.105.

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Sick Rose'.

Man was made for Joyand Woe, And when this we rightly know, Thro'the world we safely go. Joy and Woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine.

-Blake,William
c.1803  Auguries of Innocence, l.56^60.

When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay For the joy that the day has brought, Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part?

-Bond, CarrieJacobs
  'A Perfect Day'.

Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joyand treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!

-Burns, Robert
  'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza 5.

There'snot a joy theworld cangive likethat ittakes away.

-Rochdale
  'Stanzas for Music'.