 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pagine
...created Beam, and thou 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...necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, — why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 pagine
...raven down " Of darkness till it smiled." "Midnight shout and revelry, " Tipsy dance and jollity." " The sun to me is dark " And silent as the moon, "...the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."— MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leavetaking of... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pagine
...the Fr. interlunaire. The season between the going out of tire old and the coming in of the new moon. The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant inttrlunar cave. Alilton. Samson Agonista, 1. 90. p. 82. We add the two Egyptian days in every mouth,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 628 pagine
...zeal Have sought thy volume, and with love immense e fun in silence rests.] The sun to me is dork, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Milton, Sam Agon, The same metaphor will recur, Canto v. verse 29. Into a place I came Where light... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1847 - 278 pagine
...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pagine
...great Word, ' Let there be light,' and light was over all, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree t The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the light To such a tender ball... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 494 pagine
...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... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pagine
...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 540 pagine
...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 pagine
...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.''... | |
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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. 
