 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...  The Monthly Review - Pagina 4371816Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1908 pagina’s
...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, 8o And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them —... | |
 | C.R. Kitchin - 1990 - 198 pagina’s
...was written in 1816, it still seems true today, and is likely to be even more true in 101()0 years: 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 860 pagina’s
...sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal : as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish 'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 891 pagina’s
...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, 80 And the clouds perish 'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 400 pagina’s
...grave, The Moon, their mistress, had expired before; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, 80 And the clouds perished; Darkness had no need Of aid from them - She was the Universe. 1816 1817 VERSES SENT IN A LETTER FROM VENICE TO THOMAS MOORE What are you doing now, Oh Thomas Moore?... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 425 pagina’s
...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,...were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the universe. 2. Thomas Campbell, "The Last... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 830 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... | |
 | 2000 - 120 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 - 292 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 - 334 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... | |
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