 | British poets - 1828
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam «aw her prime! The Sun's eye had • sickly glare, The Earth the gate. A steed comes at morning : norider brand* Still runted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - Poetry - 1829
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White - 1829 - 497 pages
...That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Vet, prophet-like, (hat lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks, Thomas Horton - 1829 - 296 pages
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan ; The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expir'd in fight — the brands Still rusted in their hony hands; In plague and famine some! Earth's... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829
...the hrands Still rusted in their hony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no soond nor tread: And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumh ! Yet prophet-like, that lone one stood, With daontless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White - Poetry - 1830 - 496 pages
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one flood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sprc leaves from the wood As if a storm poss'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 221 pages
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare. The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around...with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell - 1830
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine юте ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1830 - 221 pages
...shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ' The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The' Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around...in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony Bands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor .tread And ships were -drifting... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 221 pages
...That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime' The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight,—the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had... | |
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The sun's eye had a sickly glare ; The earth with age was wan ; The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man. Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some. 
