The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, Splitting... The works of lord Byron including his suppressed poems - Page 423by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
| David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - 1992 - 428 pages
...stronger pull, And "a pull altogether," as they say At sea—which drew most souls another way. II The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, 10 Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet,... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...ludgemcnl (1810; repr. in Complete Writings, «1. by Geoffrey Keynes, 1 457). 2 The Angels were all singing out of tune. And hoarse with having little else to do. Excepting to wind up the sun and motín Or curb a runaway young star or two. LORD BYRON (1 788-1 824), English poet. The Vision of }udsment,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...stronger pull, And 'a pull altogether', as they say At sea - which drew most souls another way. •2 The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, 10 Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...as they say At sea - which drew most souls another way. The angels all were singing out of tune, 10 And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting...too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, 15 Splitting some planet with its playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale. Ill The guardian... | |
| Eugene Stiles - 1996 - 100 pages
...world is one place — TERTULLIAH, t 2IS 7I The angels a.1l were singing out of tune And hoarse from having little else to do Excepting to wind up the sun and moon Or curb a runaway young star or two. —Lord Byron I1788-1824I They ali have wean' mouths, btight souls without a seam. And a yearning Ias... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...author. The Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 1, set. 2, memb. 1, subset. 2 (1621). 2 The angels were all singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little...sun and moon Or curb a runaway young star or two. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÓTH BARON BYRON, (1788-1824) British poet. "The Vision of Judgment," st.... | |
| Alan J. Hommerding - 1997 - 180 pages
...seraphim in burning row Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow. John Milton Seventeenth century T HE angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do. Lord Byron Nineteenth century 26 The Angels Who Sing Glory WHEN he had taken the scroll, the four living... | |
| W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...stronger pull, And 'a pull all together', as they say At sea — which drew most souls another way. The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse...with its playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale. The guardian seraphs had retired on high, Finding their charges past all care below;... | |
| Gordon Fisher - 2006 - 230 pages
...is only a subject for parody." Frye cites Byron's early 19th century "Vision of the Last Judgement": The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse...the sun and moon Or curb a runaway young star or two ... It was Darwin, Frye observes, who completed the revolution in perspective that Copernicus had begun.... | |
| Lord Byron - 72 pages
...stronger pull, And "a pull altogether," as they say At sea— which drew most souls another way. II The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse...of a comet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er th 'ethereal blue, Splitting some planet with its playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton... | |
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