 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, So Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Without all hope of day ! Ofirft O firft created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The fun to me is dark And filent as the moon, When fhe deferts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 334 pages
...noon, to Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Without all hope of day l Ofirft jo MILTON'S POEMS. O firft created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; ^Vhy am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The fun to me is dark And Client as the moon, WhenJhe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...eclipfe • Without all hope of day ! . . O firft created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be Hght, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? Z5 The fun to me is dark And filent as the moon, When me deferts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 360 pages
...dark, aniid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipft Without all hope of day ! O firft created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The fun to me is dark And filent as the moon, When fhe deferts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...concluded by fuch exppftulations and wifhes, as reafon too often fubmits $Q learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light,...over all; Why am I thus bereav'd, thy prime decree j , The fun to me is dark, And filent as the moon, When fhe deferts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, So Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first ereated beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and...light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime deeree? 85 The sun tome is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Withgut all hope of day ! O firft-created Beam, and them great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The fun to me is dark And filent as .the moon, When fhe deferts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Concert programs - 1791 - 126 pages
...! Why thus depriv'd thy prime decree? Sun, moon, and ftars, are dark to me 1 ( 4 ) CHORUS. O firft- created beam, and thou great Word ! Let there be light ! and light was over all ; One heav'nly blaze fhone round this -earthly ball ! To thy dark fervant life by light afford. SONG.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...ftill as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I feem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Without all hope of day ! O firft created beam, and thou great word, JLet there be light, and... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipfe Without all hope of day ! O fird created Beam, and thou great Word,. Let there be light,...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree Ï The fun to me is dark, And filent, as the moon When (he deferís the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
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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. 
