 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
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1854 - 608 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...sound nor tread; And ships were drifting with the dead Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 396 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 with age was wan, The skeletons of nations we/e Around rthat jonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brand* Still rusted in their bony... | |
 | Johannes Scherr - 1881 - 442 pages
...2lft befaßter £rogtfomöbte ju 6nbe ge^en unb Ьев engltfфen Фхф1егв Bora^nenbe SBifion : „The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man" — $ur SBtrí^íeit geteorbe* fern toirb, biefer „lonely and last man" аид(аф ber ieÇte ^umorift... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 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 Earth with age was wan, Tha skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English literature - 1882 - 420 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...rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! 184 • CAMPBELL S POEMS. 1 Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with... | |
 | John Millard (elocution master in the City of Lond. sch.) - Elocution - 1882 - 274 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 Earth...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some 1 Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime! The Sim's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan,...nations were Around that lonely man! Some had expired in flight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some! Earth's cities... | |
 | James Douglas - Bombay (India) - 1883 - 590 pages
...man can cast eyea on. Of the young civilian, often sent there on his first outset, we may write— " The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age...skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man." We cannot rebuild or repeople in our imagination the Tanna of Marco Polo, but we may be certain of... | |
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