 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree t The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost Ufe itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1859 - 630 pages
...sought thy volume, and with love immense 1 Whrre Vie sun in silence rests.} The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,...29. Into a place I came Where light was silent all. 1 When the power of Julius."} Nacqui sub Julio, ancorche fosse tardi. This is explained by the Commentators:... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...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 interlunar cave.. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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 interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark -Vnd silent as the moon. When she 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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...refers to it as 'a place of low buffoonery.' 307 [284]. A quotation from Miiton, Samwn Agomstes, 87-9: as the Moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 322 [297]. the Maid of Buttermere: John Hatfield, a vulgar adventurer, came to Keswick in 1802, and... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1901 - 1328 pages
...To these dark steps — a little farther on, For yonder bank has choice of sun and sAa.de. The HI H to me is dork And silent as the moon "When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Yet once more, oh ye laurels, and once more Te myrtles brozcn, and ivy never sere, I come to pluck... | |
 | Harvard University - Education - 1874 - 378 pages
...great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos, and Bayona's hold. To me the sun is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant inlerltinar cave. ...did not she Of Tirana first betray me ? But I Believe not these suggestions, which... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. . . . The Chorus, in a similar varied measure, comments on Samson's state and contrasts it with his... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - Fiction - 1964 - 496 pages
...and dove il sol tace to signify dark places; in the Samson Agonistes (86-89): The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Cf. EMW Tillyard: The Miltonic Setting, 101. fore posed: Can an author create characters superior to... | |
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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. 
