2009, ISBN: 9781171818670

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1866Original Publisher: Hurd and Houghton Subjects: English poetryParodiesHumor / Form / ParodiesLiterary Criticism / Poetry… Meer...

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1866Original Publisher: Hurd and Houghton Subjects: English poetryParodiesHumor / Form / ParodiesLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / American / GeneralPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1866Original Publisher: Hurd and Houghton Subjects: English poetryParodiesHumor / Form / ParodiesLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / American / GeneralPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE SUN'S ECLIPSE. - July Sth, 1842. 'Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced, Cold - lurid - strange, The summer smile from Nature's brow hath chased. What fearful change, What menacing catastrophe is thus Ushered by such prognostics ominous? Is it the light of day, this livid glare, Death's counterpart: - What means the withering coldness in the air That chills my heart, And what the gloom portentous that hath made The glow of morning a funereal shade? O'er the Sun's disc a dark orb wins its slow Gloom-deepening way, Climbs - spreads - enshrouds - extinguishes - and lo! The god of day Hangs in the sky, a corpse! the usurper's might Hath stormed his throne, and quenched the life of light! A pall is on the earth - the screaming birds To covert speed; Bewildered and aghast, the bellowing herds Rush o'er the mead; While men, pale shadows in the ghastly gloom, Seem spectral forms just risen from the tomb. Transient, though total, was that drear eclipse; With might restored The Sun regladdened earth - but human lips Have never poured In mortal ears the horrors of the sight That thrilled my soul that memorable night. To every distant zone and fulgent star Mine eyes could reach, And the wide waste was one chaotic war; O'er all and each, Above - beneath - around me - everywhere, Was anarchy - convulsion - death - despair. '. Books, History~~General, Rejected-Addresses-and-Other-Poems~~James-Smith, 999999999, Rejected Addresses, and Other Poems, James Smith, Epes Sargent, Horace Smith, 117181867X, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<