 | Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher - 1995 - 482 pages
...the dark backward and abysm of time is shown in triumphant apposition with slip-shod doggerel like Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun to rise; while the gorgeous romance and suggestiveness of Presenting Thebes of Pelops' line, Or the... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 pages
...await the event of a few minutes' Deliberation? or of All shall be void— Destroy'd! is the diction of Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun to rise; or of . . . there let him lay! or of the famous passage beginning He who hath bent him o'er... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...Creeping o'er the floor so damp, 35 Like a marsh's meteor lamp: And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a...cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain, 40 With marks that will not wear away, Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to... | |
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A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp : And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain ; 'That... 
