 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pagina’s
...the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their mistress, had expired before; So The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 2000 - 134 pagina’s
...the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,...their mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither 'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish 'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them - She... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Irwin Abrams - 1997 - 312 pagina’s
...lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay... And the clouds perished; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the Universe!" Byron composed this poem in 1816, known as the "year without a summer". Mt Tambora in the East Indies... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 338 pagina’s
...pronouncing inanimate natural forces and objects 'dead' — tides, moon, winds, clouds — and concluding 'Darkness had no need /Of aid from them — She was the universe' (81-2). This culminating personification owes something to the last line of Pope's Dunciad ('And Universal... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - 2001 - 360 pagina’s
...masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — Tli ev\aves were dead: the tides were in their grave. The moon...were withered in the stagnant air. And the clouds perisrTd [...] lIL 73-81l. This terrifying vision of stasis was wriuen in 1816. when the political... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin de Grainville - 2002 - 204 pagina’s
...And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept upon the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. (73-82) That was the beginning... | |
 | Sandra Heinen, Harald Nehr - 2004 - 326 pagina’s
...lifeless A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still [...] The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expired before; [...] Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the Universe. (1816)30 Das heißt also, daß... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 2005 - 297 pagina’s
...together. 'The waves were dead,' Byron concludes his powerful 1816 vision of the end of life on earth, the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them - She was the universe. ('Darkness' 78-82) While in... | |
 | Vladislav Capek, Daniel P. Sheehan - 2005 - 380 pagina’s
...was a lump Seasonless. herbless, treeless, manless. lifeless, A lump of death a chaos of hard clay... The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave....their mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither 'd in the stagnant air. And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them She was... | |
 | Dale C. Allison - 2006 - 189 pagina’s
...sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropped They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,...no need Of aid from them — She was the Universe. Already in the Gospel of Mark we read that, at the world's end, "the sun shall be darkened and the... | |
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The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they... 
