...and, I, for one, am quite willing to set it beside most of the sonnets which I have already cited. Tis solemn darkness ; the sublime of shade ; Night,...But cannot, though I strive, discover more Than what ois one huge cavern of despair. Oh, Night, art thou so grim, when, black and bare Of moonbeams, and...

...Heavysege. He also wrote numerous short lyrics, one of which, called Xight, begins with these lines: 'Tis solemn darkness ; the sublime of shade ; Night...arrayed O'er which my eyeballs roll In vain, deceived. Among other early poets were Robert Sweeney, Oliver Goldsmith, a collateral descendant of the author...