 | 1857 - 818 pages
...darkness forever. To them Byron's dream was indeed not all a dream — " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." There were thousands who would scarcely have started to have heard the blast of the last trump, so... | |
 | Kevin McMahon - 1988 - 276 pages
...to outbreaks of cholera and typhus. The following year Byron wrote. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space....earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. No end of variables have been attached to the nuclear winter theory but dozens of inquiries over a... | |
 | C.R. Kitchin - 1990 - 218 pages
...small stars of the galaxy. As Byron expressed it, again surely coincidently, in his poem Darkness: The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. JourneyS A Study in Contrasts Truth is like a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around... | |
 | Daniel Leviton - 1991 - 396 pages
...that begins / had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright san was extinguished, and the siars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless. and pathless, and the icy eanh Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went— and came, and brought no... | |
 | Tom Stoppard - 1993 - 118 pages
...HANNAH: I thought that's what genius was. VALENTINE: Only for lunatics and poets. (Pause.) HANNAH: '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 Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...worthy, and the end it won — I would not do by thee as thou hast done I September, 1816. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright son was extingniah'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal .space, Ray less, and pathless,... | |
 | Richard J. Huggett - 1995 - 348 pages
...shores of Lake Geneva, penned the sombre poem Darkness. His mood is captured in the following extract: The bright Sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did...and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went - and came, and brought no day . . . Weather maps of the time suggest that the Tambora aerosol... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! DARKNESS I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright...extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the etemal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 pages
...George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Darkness," The Prisoner of Chillón and Other Poems (London: Murray, 1816). I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; 5 Morn came, and went—and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...(CPW, Vol. 4, p. Nor slew I of my subjects one, What Sovereign hath so little done? [Editors] 449): I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright...eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went - and came, and brought no day,... | |
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I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air... 
