 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 342 pages
...drawing attention to what a blind person would have missed. The lines in Samson Agonistes (86-89) read: The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 29. Gray to James Brown, 10 October 1769, Correspondence of Thomas Gray, III, 1074. Milton describes... | |
 | Susan Stewart - Art - 2005 - 316 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,... | |
 | Emmeline Plunket - Science - 2005 - 308 pages
...Atri's darksome cave. In the Samson Agonistes of Milton, the hero, describing his blindness, says — "The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave," 1 " The Luni-Solar year is used for the regulation of festivals and domestic arrangements; it commences... | |
 | Aruna D'Souza, Tom McDonough - Architecture - 2006 - 208 pages
...thou 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. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul,... | |
 | Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson - Literary Collections - 2005 - 456 pages
...136. Coleridge, "The Good, Great Man" (1802), 1. 13. 137. MH, bMS Am 1280.220 (52), folder 21. 138. "The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, /...deserts the night / Hid in her vacant interlunar cave" from Milton's Samson Agonistes (1671). 139. MH, bMS Am 1280.220 (52), folder 21. 140. Shakespeare,... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - European literature - 2006 - 362 pages
...Prelude. But it is Milton's text that yields most, with its memorable elegy for the poet's lost sight — The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave . . . (11. 86-89) — and its tragic play on darkness, desertion, and silence, its moon that "speaks"... | |
 | John Milton - English drama (Tragedy) - 2006 - 138 pages
...Beam, and thou 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. 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. 
