 MIDNIGHT, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep ! Behold her streets a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad to...  The curse of Kehama - Page 1by Robert Southey - 1811Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 pages
...a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad...twinklers of the night, Your feeble beams ye shed, Quench'd in the unnatural light which might, out-stars Even the broad eye of day ; And tbou from thy... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1818 - 290 pages
...a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming thro' the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad to gaze ; i House-top and balcony Clustered with women, who throw back their veils \OL. I. A With unimpeded... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 pages
...With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming (hro* the crowded wnys ! Master aud slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad to gaze...As if the mournful rite Were but to them a scene of joyaunce and delight. Vainly, ye blessed twinklcrs of the night, Your feeble beams ye shed, Quench... | |
 | 1829 - 550 pages
...objects — all London seems to have disgorged itself — " Her myriads swarming thro' the crowded ways, Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad to gaze ." The profanation of the Sabbath by persons in high life is notorious; • and this, like all other... | |
 | Jacob Green - 1831 - 298 pages
...— all London seems to have disgorged itself — "- Her myriads swarming thro' the crowded ways, 239 Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad to gaze ." The profanation of the Sabbath by persons in high life is notorious; and this, like all other profaneness,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad...twinklers of the night, Your feeble beams ye shed, Quench'd in the unnatural light which might out-stare Even the broad eye of day ; And thou from thy... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...a blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad...twinklers of the night, Your feeble beams ye shed, 29* (Juench'd in the unnatural light which might out-stare Even the broad glare of day; And thou from... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 pages
...a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad...rite Were but to them a scene of joyance and delight. 2. Vainly, ye blessed twinklers of the night, Your feeble beams ye shed, Quench'd in the unnatural... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad...Clustered with women, who throw back their veils, " Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City clos'd in sleep! With unimpeded and insatiate... | |
 | 1842 - 480 pages
...a-blaze With light that seems to kindle the red sky, Her myriads swarming through the crowded ways ! Master and slave, old age and infancy, All, all abroad to gaze; House-top and balcony Cluster'd with women, who throw back their veils With unimpeded and insatiate sight To view the funeral... | |
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