 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 interlunar cave.  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 413by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, eo Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created beam, and thou 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 she deserts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...succeeded b_ a very pleasing train of poetical images, and con eluded by such expostulations and wishes, a Lot there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree t The sun to me... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created beam, and thou great Word, " Let there...be light, and light was over all ;" Why am 1 thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first-created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day .' O first created beam, and 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 she deserts the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! 0 first-created Beam, and thou 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... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! O first created btam, and 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 she deserts the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...addressed to the passions and the fancy. The enumeration of his miseries is succeeded by a very pleasing train of poetical images, and concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as leoson too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, so Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created beam, and thou 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 she deserts... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eolipse, Without all hqpe of day ! O first created beam, and thou 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" — But happy is it for us,... | |
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