 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...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 43by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901Full view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...DABENESS. 1. 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...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light. 2. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...DARKNESS. 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 icy earth Swung hlind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went, and came — and brought no day, And... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...black'ning in the moonless airv. J Morn came, and \\enfr, I and came, and broughi no dayv;| And men forgo* their pas'sions | in the dread Of this their desolation ; | and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for ligh^. | And they did live by watch'-fires ; | and the thrones, |... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 432 pages
...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...hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light." Were there no atmosphere, the rays of tlie sun not being refracted and reflected, that luminary would... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...DARKNESS. 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,...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...some portions of the following extracts : — 44. " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...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
...Take the following from Byron's Dream of " Darkness :" "The bright sun was extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." ******* " The world was void, " The populous and the powerful were a lump, Sensonless, herbless, treeless,... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...Borror : " 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...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Kayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
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