 Out— out are the lights— out all! And over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the...  John N. Edwards: Biography, Memoirs, Reminiscences and Recollections; His ... - Page 100by Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...curtain, a funeral pull, Comi-s down with the rush of a storm, And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, " Man," And its hero the Conqneror Worm. TO TnoD WDuk'st be loved ? — then let thy heart From its present pathway part not... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 494 pages
...death. While all this is going on in a physical sense, however, what about the intellectual faculty &nd its power of distinguishing right from wrong? Is this,...residue simply what the Angels— uprising, unveiling, nilirm, That the play is the Trairudy Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm. The most deep rooted and... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1899 - 400 pages
...While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the Spheres. " And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the Play is the Tragedy Man, And its hero the conquering worm." (Edgar Poe.) 13. " We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - 1928 - 284 pages
...The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm; And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.10 The answer is clear: Mr. O'Neill's facts,- like those of all his school since Ibsen and Zola,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 756 pages
...curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,E And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its herob the Conqueror1 Worm. "O God!" half shrieked Ligeia, leaping to her feet and extending her arms... | |
 | 1881 - 612 pages
...The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm; And the angels all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy " Man," And its hero the Conquering Worm.' How strangely poetic, though widely differing in subject and treatment, are 'The... | |
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