 The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some...  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 70edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around the lonely man ! Some had ezpir'd in fight, — the brands In plague and famine some ' Earth's cities... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth...of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expir'd in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expir'd in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man 1 Some had expir'd in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1824 - 176 pages
...sweep Adown the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, Saying, We are twins in death,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1824 - 176 pages
...sweep Adown the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, Saying, We are twins in death,... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 604 pages
...Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold As Adam saw her prime ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expir'd in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 510 pages
...the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! " The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! " Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
 | 1825 - 588 pages
...considerate loftiness, and more of the spirit of religion. We can afford to give but a part of it. ' The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age...drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves... | |
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