 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1847 - 278 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Without the hope of day ! The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night." — MILTON. How greatly is this calamity increased, when to it are added the sorrows of poverty ! The... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...great Word, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? " Let there be light, and light was over all;" The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. And almost life itself, if it be true Since light so necessary is to life, That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 494 pages
...look, that I lost the hope of the height." 3 Into the valley where there is no light of the Sun. " The Sun to me is dark, And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." Mihon, Samson Agvii. CANTO i. INFERNO. 7 Whilst I was rushing downwards, there appeared before my eyes... | |
 | 1850 - 540 pages
...like minute guns. But so they passed away. The flash and the report, in a very few years, " To me were dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." Not so Wordsworth. I remember well a friend reading to me in London, where I then lived, in the year... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 416 pages
...Augusto, Al tempo degli Dei falsi e bugiardi. 13 Into the valley where there is no light of the Sun. " The Sun to me is dark, And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night, 14 Allusion to the long neglect of Virgil's works before Dante's time. Fioco also means "faint of voice.''... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was this... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...great word, " Let there be light," and light was over all ! Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ; The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1851 - 420 pages
...falsi e bugiardi. " 18 Into the valley where there is no light of the Sun. " The Sun to me is dnrk, And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant 1nlorlunar cave." M1lton, Samson Agon. 14 Allusion to the long neglect of VirgiГs works before Dantas... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...great Word, ' Let there be light,' and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ! The Sun to me is dork as a rock Of alabaster, pil'd up to the clouds, Conspicuous far, wind intcrlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
