| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 404 páginas
...rebuilds thy span Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. THE LAST MAN. ^ ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself...die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality ! IfciV JL I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adowu the gulf of Time... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 páginas
...shall melt in gloom: The sun itself shall die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality. 2.1 saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength...mould, That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw the prime. 3. The sun's eye had a sickly glare; The earth with age was wan; The skeletons of nations... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 746 páginas
...containing a poem so sublime in its conception, and so grand in its execution, as lThe Last Man:' 'Ar,L worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself...die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality ! T saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time! I saw the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 396 páginas
...still rebuilds thy span Nor lets the type grow pale with That first spoke peace to man. THE LAST MAN. ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, i• Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1855 - 406 páginas
...rebuilds thy span Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. THE LAST MAJN". ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal1 shall assume Its Immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to... | |
| East India college - 1856 - 480 páginas
...shall melt in gloom, Its stream of life run dry, Before this Freshman can assume His civil dignity ! I saw a vision in my sleep That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the lonely, last Fourth Term That shall poor Hailey's death discern — As Peter saw her prime ! The clock's... | |
| William Ross Wallace - 1856 - 192 páginas
...original lyric by Mr. F., who is one of the most beautiful minstrels of the Age. EDITOR. Cjj* fast AT.T. worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, — The Sun himself...Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality I I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 páginas
...sorrow rcturn'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. THE LAST MAN. All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself...die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality 1 I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time 1 I saw... | |
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