| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 lehte
...The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands 15 Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine...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... | |
| 1870 - 464 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, 5 That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! 10 The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 lehte
...of time! I saw the last of human mold, That shall creation's death behold. As Adam saw her prime! 2. The sun's eye had a sickly glare,— The earth with...were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight,—the brands Still rusted in their bony hands,— In plague and famine some. Earth's cities... | |
| Gems - 1871 - 280 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of time. I saw the last of human mould, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prune ! The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were... | |
| Jean Middlemass - 1872 - 340 lehte
...of the club ; and thus, as far as his own clique is concerned, he finds himself virtually alone. " The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of pleasures were Around that lonely man." And he felt truly miserable and out of spirits, as he longed... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prune ! The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 lehte
...a vision in his sleep, that gave his spirit strength to sweep adown the gulf of Time : " I saw the last of human mould That shall Creation's death Behold,...sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons jot nations were Around that lonely man," who is pictured as standing prophet-like, with dauntless... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 lehte
...death behold. I Q 2 i _ As Adam saw her prime. u z N The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, H X u < £ ! 1 The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations...fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; w H K V) a a i. i i * In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships... | |
| Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1873 - 262 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime ! MORTALIUM SUPERSTES. Fas daedalae telluris imagines, ipsum tenebris fas Hyperiona marcere : sic demum... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 514 lehte
...saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold,...eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some... | |
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