 | Emily R. Wilson - 2004 - 314 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O 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 as the moon, When she deserts the night... | |
 | Charles Seife - 2004 - 308 pages
...revolution was fully under way. Chapter 6 The Dark Universe [WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MATTER?] Ofirst created Beam, and Thou great Word, "Let there be light, and light UiM over all"; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? — JOHN MILTON, SAMSON AGONISTES Cosmology... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton - 2005 - 291 pages
...vilest now become Of man or worm: the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see . . . [...] O first created Beam, and thou great Word, "Let there be light,...over all": Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? [67-83] The contrast between man and worm, between the upright creature and the crawling and swarming... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2005 - 316 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O 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 as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 126 pages
...to live, dead more then half. 0 dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, amid Without all hope of day! 0 first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Aruna D'Souza, Tom McDonough - 2006 - 208 pages
...captive, words of one blind man in the mouth of another, from Samson Agonistes, by Milton: O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 362 pages
...mourn his exclusion from both as a bereavement which amounts to death-by-word ("decree") — O first created Beam, and thou great Word, 'Let there be light,...over all'; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? (11. 83-85) —and what follows, a lament for the siting of seeing in the eye, takes us directly to... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 138 pages
...of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thou 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 as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pages
...dark, dark amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, "Let there be light,...light was over all"; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decreee? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant... | |
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Let there be lig;ht, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd 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. 
