 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...raven down " Of darkness till it smiled." " Midnight shout and revelry, " Tipsy dance and jollity." " The sun to me is dark " And silent as the moon, "...deserts the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." — MILTON. The measure of the following two lines is remarkably descriptive of the tardy leave-taking... | |
 | 1836 - 428 pages
...great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree 7 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...great word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all,' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunarcave." Contemplating, then, in the morning's dawn, the hills, the vales, the woods, the streams,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...and light was over all ; Why sun I thus bereaved thy prime decree ! The sun to me is dark. And pileut as the moon. When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunarcaTe, Since light no necessary is to life, And nlnrwt life itself ; if it be true, That light... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...and /ung. INTERI.U'NARY, adj. > Belonging to the time when the moon, about the change, is invisible The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. tfilton. We add the two Egyptian days in every month. the interlunary and plenuunary exemptions. Вгоиж.... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...great Word, 'Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the... | |
 | Woman - Women - 1840 - 806 pages
...great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — Samson Agon. Such are the lamentations, though rarely so eloquently uttered, which we daily hear, on the loss... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bcreav'd thy prime decree! nsummate lovely smil'd ; Since light so necessary is lo life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
