 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...be light, and light was over all; O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Why am I thus bereaved 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 Since light so necessary is to life, That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1843 - 224 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Wilhiml the hope of day 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night." — MILTON. How greatly is this calamity increased, when to it are added the sorrows of poverty ! The... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...long with zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense 1 n here 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. Sam. Agon. The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 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, "...the night, "Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."— MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leavetaking of... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 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, "...the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."— MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leavetaking of... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...the Fr. interlunaire. The season between the going out of tire old and the coming in of the new moon. The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant inttrlunar cave. Alilton. Samson Agonista, 1. 90. p. 82. We add the two Egyptian days in every mouth,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 628 pages
...zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense e fun in silence rests.] The sun to me is dork, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton, Sam Agon, The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1847 - 278 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Without the hope of day ! The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night." — MILTON. How greatly is this calamity increased, when to it are added the sorrows of poverty ! The... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...great Word, ' Let there be light,' and light was over all, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree t The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...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 light To such a tender ball... | |
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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. 
