 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 aspect,...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 145by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843Full view - About this book
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...black. 3. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them. Some lay down, And hid their eyes,...and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their clinched hands, and smiled; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel, and... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 338 pages
...was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and...dull sky, The pall of a past world; and then again 3o With curses cast them down upon the dust, 103 And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes Y K K iaj ^ 0z 29 The pall of a past world; and then again With curses cast them down upon the dust, And gnash'd their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...was black. The brows of men by the despsiring light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes ver my friend. Ink. No doubt; you by this time should...publish, am ready to buy. Ink. That 's my bookseller's b J9 The pall of a past world; and then again With curses cast them down upon the dust, And gnash'd their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes / 29 The pall of a past world; and then again With curses cast them down upon the dust, And gnash'd their... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1905 - 470 pages
...men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by lits The flashes fell upon them ; somc lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did...and smiled: And others hurried to and fro, and fed IV Entre ces poèmes effrénés et funéraires, qui tous incessamment reviennent et s'obstinent sur... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...was black. The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their china upon their clenched hands, and smiled; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles... | |
 | American poetry - 1894 - 490 pages
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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...story of the battle between the Vulture-cavalry and the Sky-gnats, in Lucian's Vera Hitloria, i. 16.] And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenchéd hands, and smiled; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel,... | |
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