 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1883 - 482 páginas
...hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light. . . . A fearful hope was all the world contained ; Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded, — and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash, — and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 páginas
...slave's life to a glorious death ! 5. — AWE. A fearful hope — was all — the world contained: Forests were set- on fire; but, hour by hour, They fell, and faded, and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash, and all was black. The brows of men, by the despairing light, Wore an unearthly... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 páginas
...chatter, And my knees knock together. AWE. 12 A fearful hope — was all — the world contained : Forests were set on fire ; but, hour by hour, They fell, and faded, and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash, and all was black. The brows of men, by the despairing light. Wore an unearthly... | |
 | Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 páginas
...dwell, Were burned for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the voleanoes, and their mountain-torch: A fearful hope was all the world contained; Forests were set on... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 252 páginas
...which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, Andmenweregather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face ; Happy were...was all the world contain'd ; Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a crash—and... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 páginas
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed ; And men were gathered round their blazing homes, To look once more into each other's face. Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes, and their mountain torch ! A fearful hope was all the world contained ; Forests were set... | |
 | William Spotswood Green - 1890 - 308 páginas
...towards Mountain Creek we were quickly enveloped in dense smoke arising from the burning forests. " Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash — and all was black." For miles the magnificent timber was blazing away,... | |
 | William Spotswood Green - 1890 - 300 páginas
...towards Mountain Creek we were quickly enveloped in dense smoke arising from the burning forests. " Forests were set on fire — but hour by hour They fell and faded — and the crackling trunks Extinguished with a crash — and all was black." For miles the magnificent timber was blazing away,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 páginas
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed. And men were gather'd round their blazing homes ' Islands of the Blest.' § The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the s volcanoes, and their mountain-torch : A fearful hope was all the world contained ; I'oreHs were si... | |
 | William Benton Chamberlain - 1892 - 408 páginas
...dwell, Were burnt for beacons ; cities were consumed, And men were gathered round their blazing homes, To look once more into each other's face. Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanoes and their mountain torch. Completeness is marked in the voice by a falling' slide; that indicating... | |
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The palaces of crowned kings - the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face. Happy were those who dwelt within... 
