 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
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...and blackening in the moonless air. Mom c-anic, and went — and came, and brought no day, And moil forgot their passions, in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts AVcre chilled into a selfish prayer for light. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 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 chiil'd into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires— and the thrones, The palaces... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...and went', i and came, and brought no day ;| And men forgot their pas'sions | in the dread Of tliis their desola'tion ; | and all hearts Were chill'd...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 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...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... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...blackening in the moonless air. Morn came and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot {heir 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...earth '.iir ; Swung blind and blackening in the moon!i>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... | |
 | Amédée Guillemin - 1870 - 328 pages
...Earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. Morn came and went — and came, anil 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... | |
 | Amédée Guillemin - 1870 - 332 pages
...their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for liglit. 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...and the crackling trunks Extinguish 'd with a crash — 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 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...into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires—and the throne«. The palaces of crowned kings—the huts, The habitations of all things... | |
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