 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
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1856 - 292 pages
...icy 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, And palaces... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...blind, and blackening, in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no ilay ; And men forgot their passions, in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light. Some lay down, And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...blackening in the moonless air. Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations of all things that dwell, Were burnt for beacons. All the world was void, A waste of death... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...icy 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...hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light. 2. And they did live by watch-fires; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The +... | |
 | 1857 - 818 pages
...clouds of heaven." Many who had never prayed before, lifted up their souls in the agony of despair. . " And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation : and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light." We can scarcely imagine anything more awful than the state... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 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... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...icy 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 chill' d into a selfish prayer for light. 2. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 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 watchflres — and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings — the huts, The habitations of all... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...earth Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this...into a selfish prayer for light And they did live by watc-hfires—and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings—the huts, Were burnt for beacons;... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 pages
...Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. Morn came, and went, and came, and brought no duy. And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this...hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light" What is called a dry fog, however, is greatly worse than the fogs of cities, and probably arises from... | |
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