 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 308 pages
...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 bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to leam from despair : O first created beam, and 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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou Aikin ! Tin' Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night. Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1820 - 206 pages
...of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day! O, first erected beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? This affecting quotation, uttered with that peculiar solemnity and pathos... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...postulations 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 berea/d thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Edward Holt - Great Britain - 1820 - 730 pages
...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse. Without all hope of day! O, first erected beam, and them great WoRP, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereavM thy prime decree?" This affecting quotation, uttered with that peculiar solemnity and pathos... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...dark, amid the blaze of noon '. 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 bereav'd thy prime decree ? O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepid age ! Happy indeed, if those " children of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...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 bercav'd thy prime decree ! The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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 bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 pages
...such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair: O first created beam, and them great word Let there be light, and...over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
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Why am I thus bereav'd 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. 
