 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...  The Williams Quarterly - Page 3331857Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...Extremely long pauses.) " 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,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went,—and came, and brought no day. " The world was void: The populous and the powerful... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Kayless, and pathless, and the icy 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... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1856 - 296 pages
...scene. I do not remember to have seen this curious fact stated by any writer. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished,...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 this... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...Desparingly and sullen, in the night, Santa Anna fled. ALBERT PIKE. 15. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished,...earth Swung blind, and blackening, in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no ilay ; And men forgot their passions, in the dread... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1856 - 300 pages
...have seen this curious fact stated by any writer. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The'bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling....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... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...perils of the way. 452. 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 they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 592 pages
...— without religion. " I had a dream, which was not all a dream — The bright BUU was extingnish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the iey earth Swung, blind and black'ning, in the moonless air. ***** The crowd was famish'd by degrecs... | |
 | William Cecil Duncan - 1856 - 360 pages
...into outer darkness !" And what a darkness ! The bright sun shall be extinguished ; the stars will " wander darkling in the eternal space, rayless and pathless;" and " the icy earth" will swing "blind and blackening in the moonless air." Morn will come, and go; and come, and bring... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 pages
...horrors. Direness. familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. 3. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished;...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. $. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a sev ret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...the Inchcape Bell The Devil below was ringing his knell. DARKNESS. BY BYRON. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished,...•swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; ilorn came and went — and came and brought no day, Ind men forgot their passions in the dread Jf... | |
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