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; The winds were... The New Englander - Pagina 4631872Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pagina’s
...recollected the following strange lines, arid almost fancied that such might be our own dismal fate:— " 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 dropped, They... | |
| 1817 - 608 pagina’s
...world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, mnnless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay....still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths: Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 pagina’s
...Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pagina’s
...Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They... | |
| 1816 - 696 pagina’s
...the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herblexs, treeless, numkss, lifeless—*• A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred witliiu their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal;... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pagina’s
...Fiend. The world was void. The populous and the powerful was a lump, .. '• . Seasonless, herWess, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. SfoS* The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pagina’s
...Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pagina’s
...Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd The waves... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pagina’s
...Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, They slept on the abyss -without a surge — The waves were... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pagina’s
...Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— A. lump of...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, &nd their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They... | |
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