i spent a good long minute trying to remember if it was byron, milton, or blake who said "if ever God made the sweetest creature / so sublime in ev'ry feature" and what discussion of the garden of eden it might be from. and googling wasn't much help!
for some time, a romantic era dwelt
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in truth i only know two or three monologs from Paradise Lost, and live in suitable innocence to the rest of the text. but when i came of age, for reasons and from sources I have longed long to rediscover, I learned adam's profession to eve:
And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee
Certain my resolution is to die:
How can I live without thee! how forego
Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn!
Should God create another Eve, and I
Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart: no, no! I feel
The link of Nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
and like. the way the speech turns from overconstructed to natural over the course of the phrase "yet loss of thee would never from my heart: no, no!" makes the line especially memorable — it taught a young juliet the use of "from" as a verb (see also hamlet's "from the purpose of playing" in Speak the Speech). no, no!