 I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...  The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 235by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread...into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings — the huts, The habitations of all... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...consumed ; And men were gathered round their blazing homes, Morn came, and went, — and came, and brought no day : And men forgot their passions, in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : 15 To look once more into each other's face : Happy were... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went, — and catne, and brought no day: And men forjjot their passions, in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : 10 And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, — Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumpd : And men... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...desolation ; and all hearts \Vere chilled— into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watch-fires; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations of all things, which dwell, — Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went ; and came, and brought no day ; And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; BYRON. Morn came, and went — and came and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation : and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The palaces... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, Ami men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
 | Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 pages
...moonless air; Morn came and went — and came, and brought no day,. And men forgot their passion» in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts...into a selfish prayer for light. And they did live by watchfircs — and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings — the huts, The habitations of all... | |
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