 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...DARKNESS. (BYRON.) I had a drea,m | which was not all' a dream — j The bright sun was extinguish'd ; I and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, | Rayless, and pathrless ; | and the icy earth | Swung blind and black'ning in the moonless airv. J Morn came, and... | |
 | 1854 - 44 pages
...statement belongs to the creative Imagination also. Take the following from Byron's Dream of " Darkness :" "The bright sun was extinguished and the stars Did...The world was void, " The populous and the powerful were a lump, Sensonless, herbless, treeless, lifeless, — A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 412 pages
...dream would become a frightful and horrid reality : — " I had a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...and dying With the blest tone that made me ! ii DARKNESS. I had a dream, which was not ail a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...monotone may be further exemplified in the reading of some portions of the following extracts : — 44. " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." 45. " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...into my brain * Borror : " 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,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;" — Amazement: "What may this mean, That thou dead corse, again, 5n complete steel, Revisit'st thus... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...me. March, 1815. DARKNESS. 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,...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... | |
 | 1854 - 386 pages
...sun wan extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, '.' J* I' • I • " . Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind...The world was void, "The populous and the powerful were a lump,. Seasonless, herbless, treeless, lifeless, — A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 pages
...familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. 8. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. $. Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a S0k let can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. 8. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. 4. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, 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... 
