 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 240 pages
...the Power — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of night primeval and of chaos old ! Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 pages
...obeys the Power— She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of night primeval and of chaos old ! Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
..."THE DUNCIAD." She comes ! she comes ! the sahlo throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! FBOH "THE PLEASURES or IMAGINATION." * " * Thus doth Beauty dwell There most cons shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. A» one by one, at dread... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...realms of poetry. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old. Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. Lo ! thy dread empire,... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - Social Science - 1962 - 306 pages
...obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Anthologies - 1989 - 204 pages
...beings. Hard upon the portentousness of the opening couplet comes something of quite a different kind : Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Fancy may be decaying, but the effect of the lines which tell us this is that of a brightly sensuous,... | |
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Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars... 
