 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
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 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...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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...; And ships were drifting with the dead, To shores were all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...unsatisfactory impression. The scenery by which the Last Man is surrounded is finely delineated. ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rested in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 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...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the hrands Still rusted in their hony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 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...that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the hrands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...time; I saw the last of human mould, Tha' shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw the prime. 3. The sun's eye had a sickly glare ; The earth with...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man. Some hail expir'd in fight : the brands Still rested in their bony hands ; In plague and famine, some ;... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! The svin's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan,...ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all were dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...terminated his career, and wanted but little of leaving his bones to bleach on the arid sands : — ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.' Surely this little episode is given with admirable ease, simplicity, and energy. ' I turned off the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...oxen that perished on the road—devouring the largest bodies with a promptitude truly surprising.' ' The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.' •I turned off the road in punuit of a troop of brindled gnoos, and presently came upon another, which... | |
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