 | John Milton - 1831 - 348 pages
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 | Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...evening shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities." 1) Where the sun in silence rests.] The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton. Sa. Ago. The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light was... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 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 in every part ; why was... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 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 in every part ; why was... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 360 pages
...raven down " Of darkness till it smiled." " Midnight shout and revelry, " Tipsy dance and jollity." " The sun to me is dark " And silent as the moon, "...deserts the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." — MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leave-taking... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...created beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am 1 thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent...light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, ifit be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | 1836 - 428 pages
...great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree 7 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 in every part ; why was... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...created btam, 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...her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary ia to life, And almost life itself, if it be true' That light is in the soul, She all in every part... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 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. And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...first-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...moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunarcave." Contemplating, then, in the morning's dawn, the hills, the vales, the woods, the streams,... | |
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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. 
