 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The son 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, She all in every part.... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...word, I>t there be light, and light was over all 5 Why am " thus bereav'd thy prime decree . The sun t 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 Htjht is in the soul.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...light, and light was over all;'' \Vhy am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, Ami silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunnr cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...hope of day ! ' 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." In the early part of this lecture I spoke of what had struck me as the magnanimity of Milton's boyhood.... | |
 | Harvard University - Education - 1874 - 378 pages
...Where the 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
...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. . . . The Chorus, in a similar varied measure, comments on Samson's state and contrasts it with his... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - Fiction - 1964 - 496 pages
...behave: tfogni luce muto 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...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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 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. [80-89] How poorly the chorus understands this man, as they enter now, judging him only by outward... | |
 | John Milton - Drama - 1988 - 244 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 it self, if it be true That light is in the Soul,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 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 almosl 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. 
