 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gathered, round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were...mountain-torch : A fearful hope was all the world contained ; Forests were set on fire — but hour hy hour They fell and faded — and the crackling... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were...who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their mountain torch : A fearful hope was all the world contain'd ; Forests were set on fire— but hour... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 346 pages
...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, They fell and faded, and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash, and all was black. And War, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1841 - 286 pages
...within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain torch. A fearful hope was all the world contained: Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash — and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...once more into each other's face,. | Happy were they | who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, | and their mountain-torch. | A fearful hope , | was...the world contain'd ; | Forests were set on fire, ; | and hour by hour They fell and fa'ded — | and the crackling trunks , | Extinguish'd with a crash',... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were...— but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the cracklmg trunks The brows of men by the despairing light "Wore au unearthly aspect, as by fits The... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed ; And men were gathered round their blazing homes, 15 To look once more into each other's face : Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes and their mountain torch. A fearful hope was all the world contained : Forests were set on... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...within the eye Of the volcanoes and their mountain torch. A fearful hope was all the world contained : Forests were set on fire ; but, hour by hour, ' They fell and faded ; and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash, — and all was black, The brows of men, by the despairing light, Wore an... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...other's face ; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their mountain torch : A fearful hope was all the" world contain'd ; Forests...trunks Extinguish'd with a crash — and all was black. 3. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...— Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men w'regather'd round their blazing homes, To look once more into each other's face : Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain torch. A fearful hope — was all— the world contained: Forests were... | |
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The palaces of crowned kings - the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face. Happy were those who dwelt within... 
