 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
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 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...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 Connery - 1861 - 416 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 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 watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations of all things... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 pages
...— and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a cra*h — and all was black. And they did live by watchfires — 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 were gathered... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 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 Idngs — the huts, The habitations of all... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 pages
...moonless air ; Morn came and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in their dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were...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 Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 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 — For they did live by watchfires : and the thrones — The... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 452 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... | |
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