 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." In prose something equivalent to this might have been permitted by reason of the severe impressiveness... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." In prose something equivalent to this might have been permitted by reason of the severe impressiveness... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The son to me is dark, And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true, She all in every part.... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...word, I>t there be light, and light was over all 5 Why am " thus bereav'd thy prime decree . The sun t me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true that Htjht is in the soul.... | |
 | 1901 - 1328 pages
...steps — a little farther on, For yonder bank has choice of sun and sAa.de. The HI H to me is dork And silent as the moon "When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Yet once more, oh ye laurels, and once more Te myrtles brozcn, and ivy never sere, I come to pluck... | |
 | Harvard University - 1874 - 378 pages
...Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos, and Bayona's hold. To me the sun is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant inlerltinar cave. ...did not she Of Tirana first betray me ? But I Believe not these suggestions, which... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...great word, "Let there be light, and light was over all," Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. . . . The Chorus, in a similar varied measure, comments on Samson's state and contrasts it with his... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - 1964 - 496 pages
...behave: tfogni luce muto and dove il sol tace to signify dark places; in the Samson Agonistes (86-89): The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Cf. EMW Tillyard: The Miltonic Setting, 101. fore posed: Can an author create characters superior to... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. [80-89] How poorly the chorus understands this man, as they enter now, judging him only by outward... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 pages
...thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life it self, if it be true That light is in the Soul,... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
