 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 454 pages
...and coneluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bercav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without ail hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over... | |
 | York city, musical festival - Music festivals - 1825 - 100 pages
...with welcome day ; Why thus depriv'd thy prime decree ? Sun, moon and stars are dark to me. » CHORUS. O first created beam ! and thou great word ! Let there be Light ! and light was over all : One hear'uly blaze shone round this earthly ball ; To thy dark servant life by light afford. RECITATIVE—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou, great word, Let there bo light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...laid the foundation of the second poem. DUNSTER. Ver. 80. 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and...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 the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce hall I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first1 created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ," Why am I... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to lire, dead more than half. O 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... | |
 | 1827 - 412 pages
...Still as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half : O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." ' The enjoyment of sight then being so great a blessing, and the loss of it so terrible... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half 1 sesm to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day! O first-created beam, and thoa great word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the hlaze of noon, Irrecoverahly dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! , O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there he light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus hereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark,... | |
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
