 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1829 - 478 pages
...mist; For all was blank, and bleak, and gray, It was not nights-it was not day, It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy...no stars— no earth— no time— No check — no change-no good — no crime— But silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death;... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1830 - 502 pages
...mist; For all was blank, and bleak, and gray, It was not night — it was not day, It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy...idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless! A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...For all was blank, and bleak, and gray — It was not night — it was not day, It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy...time — No check— no change — no good — no crimeBut silence, and a .stir less breath Which neither was of life nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...was not day, It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorhing space ; And fixedness without a place : There were...time — No check— no change — no good — no crimeBut silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 348 pages
...extinction of the younge&t life is the most tender and beautiful passage in the poem. — JEFFREY.] But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without...idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless ! x. A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird ; It ceased, and then it came again,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...extinction of the youngest life it the most tender and beautiftil passage in the poem. — JEFFREY.] But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without...idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless ! x. A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird ; It ceased, and then it came again,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...earth—no time— But silence, and a stirless breath, No check—no change—no good—no crime— Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant...idleness , Blind, boundless , mute, and motionless! X. A light broke in upon my brain,— The sweetest song ear ever heard; And mine was thankful till my... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...; For all was bl.mk, and bleak, and grey, It was not night — it was not day, It was not even (lie dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy...change — no good — no crime — But silence, and a slirless breath Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...blank, and bleak, and grey, It was not night — it was not day, It was not even tlie dungeon-light, Se 17 chrck — no change — no good — no crimeBut silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...not night — it was not day, It was not even the dungeon-light. So hateful to my heavy sight, Hut s avail'd not: — Good, or evil, life, Powers, passions,...me as rain nnto the sands, Since that all-nameless crimeBut silence, and a stirlcss breath Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant idleness,... | |
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It was not night — it was not day, It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place; There were no stars — no earth — no time — No check — no change — no good —... 
