 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths^. | Ships, sai'lorless, | lay rotting on the sea1 ; | And their masts fell down piece,-meal; | as they dropp'd,| They slept on the abyss, without a surge . — | The waves were dead1 ; the tides were in their grave*, — | The moon,... | |
 | 1854 - 386 pages
..." The world was void, "The populous and the powerful were a lump,. Seasonless, herbless, treeless, lifeless, — A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay....sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves wore dead; the tides were in their graves... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Reasonless, herbless, treeless, 'inanless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....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,... | |
 | Old Traveller - 1854 - 312 pages
...recollected the following strange lines, and almost fancied that euch might be our own dismal fate : " The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 pages
...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...nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailoriess lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept... | |
 | 1854 - 44 pages
..." The world was void, " The populous and the powerful were a lump, Sensonless, herbless, treeless, lifeless, — A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, und ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships, sailorless, lay... | |
 | 1854 - 818 pages
...hither and thither. " The world is void, The populous and the powerful is a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay." Without a perceptible interval, the heavens are on fire, the wcikin roars with thunder, darkness usurps... | |
 | William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...the powerful was a lump,— Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless,— A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean,...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...had written Kend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death —...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... | |
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The 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. 
