| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...The bright sun was extinguished, — and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Raylcss, and pathless — and the icy earth Swung blind and...dread Of this their desolation : and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light : 2. And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
| Eben Norton Horsford - 1839 - 414 pages
...contemplation of universal devastation and death: " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. # * * * # # A fearful hope was all the world contained: Forests were set on fire; but, hour by hour,... | |
| Orville Dewey - 1841 - 312 pages
...without the light of Heaven to shine upon it. As if <c The bright Sun were extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;'1 so would the soul, conscious of its own nature, be, without the light of God's presence shining... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...earth | Swung blind and black'ning in the moonless air,. | Morn came, and wenp, | and came, and broughJ no day,;| And men forgot their pas'sions | in the...dread Of this their desolation ; | and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light'. | And they did live by watch'-fires ; | and the thrones,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Eayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn...hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : 10 And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Very Low. " I had a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." Very High. " I woke : — where was I ? — Do I see A human face look down on me ? And doth a roof... | |
| William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...Horror : " I had a dream which was not all a dream : The hright sun was extinguish'd ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;" — * Amazement : " What may this mean, That thou dead corse, again, In complete steel, Revisit'st... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Very Low. " I had a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright sun was extinguished; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung Wind and blackening in the moonless air." Very High. " I woke :-^where was I ?—Do I see A human face... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...[<?o] I had a dream, which was not all a dream. — The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went, — and catne, and brought no... | |
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