 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 Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.  Concerts of Antient Music - Page 51791Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze 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 bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...dark ! amid the blaze 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 bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...concluded by such 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 bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she... | |
 | Domestic, literary and village sketches - 1823 - 168 pages
...cast of feature speaks forcibly privation of sight, most pathetic is thy appeal — O fair-created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light — and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ?f * Of Horace Walpole's contributions to literature, we... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...dark, amid the blaze of noon, 80 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 bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrevocably 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 bereav'd thy prime decree ? Milton's Samson Agonistes. BLUSHES. From every blush that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...dark, amid the blaze of noon, SO Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! О flrst created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? 85 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without ail 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... | |
 | York city, musical festival - 1825 - 100 pages
...welcome day ; Why thus depriv'd thy prime decree ? Sun, moon and stars are dark to me. » CHORUS. O first created beam ! and thou great word ! Let there be Light ! and light was over all : One hear'uly blaze shone round this earthly ball ; To thy dark servant life by light afford. RECITATIVE—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...concluded by such expostulation 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... | |
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