 The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some...  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 70edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime I The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred...would wander without a possibility of restraint ; the 1 Some had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands — In plague and famine... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1851 - 842 pages
...the barbarous heathen to make way for the chosen people of God." " Some had expired in fipjht, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands, — In plague and famine some.'* — CAMPBELL. All wars and disasters, in those days, were thought to be preceded by some etrange natural... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands1 Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...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, The earth with...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb. 3. Yet, prophet-like, the lone one stood, Saying, "We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Kurlli with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man! Some had expired in Split — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities hud... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! \ Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, 'With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
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