| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...start me. 8. 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,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. 4. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 320 pages
...start me. 8. 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,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. $. Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a S0k let can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - Dreams - 1856 - 292 pages
...any writer. 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...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light ; And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, And palaces... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...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, Rayless...came, and went — and came, and brought no day. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The habitations... | |
| Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...DARKNESS. 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,...; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no ilay ; And men forgot their passions, in the dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled... | |
| William Cecil Duncan - Baptists - 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... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Ridgefield (Conn. : Town) - 1856 - 592 pages
...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 Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...bright sun was + extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, •Hlayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening...hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light. 2. And they did live by watch-fires; and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, The +... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...start me. 3. 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,...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
...BY BYRON. 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,...•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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