 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...Beam ! and thou great Word, " Let there be light ! and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent...necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. That against privations and disadvantages, great and apparently overwhelming as were these, blind,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1822
...from Troy, 70 When the flames prey'd on Ilium's hanghty towers4 * Where the sun in silenee rests.] The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her Taeant interlunar eave. Milton. Sa. //;;i.•, The same metaphor will reeur, Canto v. verse 29. Into... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...created Beam, and thon great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent...necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 514 pages
...created beam, and them great word Let there be light, atid light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent...necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent...necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 408 pages
...bereaved thy prime decree? The SuB to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the nighl, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so...necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...created Beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent...necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? 85 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all ш every pan ; why was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 454 pages
...created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bercav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent...moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunarcave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself ; if it be true, That light... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
