 | 1870 - 462 pagine
...Time! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime! 10 The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...nations were Around that lonely man! Some had expired in fight,—the brands 15 Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some! Earth's cities... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pagine
...a Poem by Shelley. 154. " And a mighty troop around With their trampling shook the ground.' " I had a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time." " The blessing of her quiet life Fell on us like the dew." " Hear the woodlark charm the forest, Telling... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pagine
...shall melt in gloom,— The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...sweep Adown the gulf of time! I saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold. As Adam saw her prime! 2. The sun's eye had a sickly glare,—... | |
 | Gems - 1871 - 280 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of time. I saw the last of human mould, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prune... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1871 - 498 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pagine
...shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prune ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Victor Meunier - 1872 - 344 pagine
...unshaken amid the ruins of a world. " I had a vision in my sleep," exclaims the poet Campbell, — " That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf...mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw its prime." Such a conception is altogether fanciful and untrue, however it may impose upon the imagination.... | |
 | 1884 - 794 pagine
...gloom, — The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume I saw a vision in my sleep Tli.it gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mold That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime 1 The sun's eye had a sickly glare,... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1872 - 340 pagine
...of the club ; and thus, as far as his own clique is concerned, he finds himself virtually alone. " The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of pleasures were Around that lonely man." And he felt truly miserable and out of spirits, as he longed... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 pagine
...with a superb disregard to the tenor of Scripture. Campbell saw a vision in his sleep, that gave his spirit strength to sweep adown the gulf of Time :...sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons jot nations were Around that lonely man," who is pictured as standing prophet-like, with dauntless... | |
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All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's... 
