 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...world was void ; The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The...rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths; Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...world was void ; The populous and the powerful was a lump, — Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, — A lump of death, — a chaos of hard...sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped, They slept on the abyss without a surge : The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...impossible to sailing vessels, and parts of Byron's striking picture might soon be realised : — " The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And...nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships, sailorlcss, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped. They slept... | |
 | Francis William Upham - 1860 - 462 pages
...heat. " The world was void, Seasonless, heruless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death. The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still; And nothing stirred within their silent depths. The waves were dead, the tides were in their grave ; The winds withered in the stagnant air, And the... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay...nothing stirred within their silent depths : Ships, sailoi-less, lay rotting on the sea, And their njasts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped, They slept... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths J Ships, sailorlesp, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropped,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, mauless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...lakes, and ocean, all stood still. And nothing stirred within their tdlent depths] Ships, sailorlesa, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropped. They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead ; the tides were in their... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 344 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, 7o Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down... | |
| |
They slept on the abyss, without a surge; The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave; The moon, their mistress, had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished: Darkness had no need Of aid from them —... 
