...common deeds of destruction, and revelled in the contemplation of universal devastation and death: " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. # * * * # # A fearful hope was all the world contained: Forests were set on fire; but, hour by hour,...

...Street. "Mr DEAR MOB-TIMER, 'I had a dream, which was not all a dream; The bright sun was extinguish'^, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless.' "'The world' is in 'amazement lost!' — all London is wondering whither you are gone, and why. We...

...material orb would be dark without the light of Heaven to shine upon it. As if <c The bright Sun were extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in...icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;'1 so would the soul, conscious of its own nature, be, without the light of God's presence shining...

...July 24, It-US. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread...

...would long since have realized the terrific phantasies of Byron's poetic dream on darkness, when — 'The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars 'Did...wander darkling in the eternal space, 'Rayless and patbless, and the icy earth "Swung blind and blackning in the moonless air." The latter alternative,...

...which memory throws Athwart the soul, in the hour of repose." 2* Very Low. " I had a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright sun was extinguished ;...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." Very High. " I woke : — where was I ? — Do I see A human face look down on me ? And doth a roof...

...the reading, and impairs the power of the poetry, on the ear and the heart.] I had a dream, which was not all a dream. — The bright sun was extinguished,...eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; 10 And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones,...

...eternal rock." Horror : " I had a dream which was not all a dream : The hright sun was extinguish'd ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;" — * Amazement : " What may this mean, That thou dead corse, again, In complete steel, Revisit'st...

...reading, and impairs the power of the poetry, on the ear and the heart.] [(To] I had a dream, which was not all a dream. — The bright sun was extinguished,...the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Eayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came,...

...The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Eayless, and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." • Very High. " I woke : — where was I ? — Do I see A human face look down on me ? And doth a...