 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 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...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... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 180 pages
...Indeed, your first view of me, white bearded and ancient, may have turned that gloom into profound dark; dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrecoverably dark, total eclipse. But the case is not as hard as that. I am among the older of the Nobel Laureates and therefore might... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...still as a fool In power of others, never in my own; Scarce halfl 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! [67-82] In simple truth we cannot tell when this and Samson's other great speeches on blindness were... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...poetry, as Samson describes his being 'exiled from light': Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant, interlunar... | |
 | Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...express extreme agitation, as in King Lear's famous outburst: Never, never, never, never, never! 0 dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! Archibald MacLeish imagines the end of the world: There is the sudden blackness, the black pall Of... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. 7656 Samson Agonistes rds ... like so many nimble and airy servitors trip...about him at command. 7456 'Arcades' Such sweet co 7657 Samson Agonistes The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid... | |
 | B. S. Shylaja, H. R. Madhusudan - Eclipses - 1999 - 164 pages
...finds some place for its description in his work. Here are the impressions of John Milton (1671): "O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hopes of day! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light and light over all; Why... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 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...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, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Ottar G. Draugsvold - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 308 pages
...Indeed, your first view of me, white bearded and ancient, may have turned that gloom into profound dark; dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrecoverably dark, total eclipse. But the case is not as hard as that Critics have dug into my books until they could come up with something... | |
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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. 
