| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1853 - 498 pages
...of the creative energy of God. Shall all these lie scattered irregularly in chaotic clusters, and " Wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swing blind and blackened in the moonless air ?" Or shall they be summoned to course in beauteous order... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...DARKNESS. (BYRON.) I had a drea,m | which was not all' a dream — j The bright sun was extinguish'd ; I and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, | Rayless, and pathrless ; | and the icy earth | Swung blind and black'ning in the moonless airv. J Morn came, and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...they be, So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me. March, 1815. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright...and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation... | |
| William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...me, for thou knowest :" — Awe : " The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain * Borror : " I had a dream which was not all a dream : The bright...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;" — Amazement: "What may this mean, That thou dead corse, again, 5n complete steel, Revisit'st thus... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...that made me ! ii DARKNESS. I had a dream, which was not ail a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...the reading of some portions of the following extracts : — 44. " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." 45. " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
| 1854 - 44 pages
...Imagination also. Take the following from Byron's Dream of " Darkness :" "The bright sun was extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." ******* " The world was void, " The populous and the powerful were a lump, Sensonless, herbless, treeless,... | |
| 1854 - 386 pages
...sun wan extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, '.' J* I' • I • " . Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless Air." * * * » .»•«.*• " The world was void, "The populous and the powerful were a lump,. Seasonless,... | |
| Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 412 pages
...the valley and shadow of death. The poet's dream would become a frightful and horrid reality : — " 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...honour," and so forth : Such was the vow you pledged to me, And here's exactly what 'tis worth. DARKNESS.9 I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright...the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Kayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came... | |
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