(sith the darksome river Of Styx, not passable to soules returning, Enclosing you in thrice three wards for ever, Doo not restraine your images still mourning,) Tell me then, (for perhaps some one of you Yet here above him secretly doth hide,)

whose beauteous beams of light Sprang from the darksome womb of night!" and who was a great friend of Addison, which is the best I know of him.

That glorious form, that light insufferable, And that far-beaming blaze of majesty, Wherewith he wont[109] at heaven's high council-table To sit the midst of trinal unity, He laid aside, and here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.

Because I thought thou wert One who in a darksome cavern Died to show thy love for me. CHRYSANTHUS.

When the orient beam With blushes paints the dawn; and all the race 220 Carnivorous, with blood full-gorged, retire Into their darksome cells, there satiate snore O'er dripping offals, and the mangled limbs Of men and beasts; the painful forester 224 Climbs the high hills, whose proud aspiring tops, With the tall cedar crowned, and taper fir, Assail the clouds.

By this time the darksome clouds began to spread over the elements, and the night growing very dusky, made it so much the more to our disadvantage; but still the noise increasing, we were fully assured, that it was the howling and the yelling of those ravenous creatures; when presently three troops of wolves on our front appeared in sight, as though a great number of them had a design to surround us, and devour us in spite of fate.

He is at his best alert in the excitement of the chase; but all too rare now is the inspiring sight that once was common among the mountains of Morven and the glens of Argyll of the deep-voiced hound speeding in pursuit of his antlered prey, racing him at full stretch along the mountain's ridge, or baying him at last in the fastness of darksome corrie or deep ravine.

"How jealous some one whom I know would be," said Sabina, "if he found you and Tom together in this darksome den!"

On Erin's lovely land he fallsawarded darksome doom, When, ruffian-like, he dared profane the saintly Olave's tomb: He leaves his conquests, kingdoms, crowns, and all of earthly state, To sleep in loneliness, and fill his dark predicted fate.

O great was Conn in that dread hour, And all the Fians feared his power, And watched, as in a darksome dream, The warriors meet ...

Clusters of heads showed black for a moment in some darksome entry, cried "U-g-g-hh!" with a hateful sound, and vanished ere the steel-clad veterans of the Duke's guard could come upon them.

As I lift my eyes from this paper, they rest on no less than ten great half-yearly volumes, which flash "The Dawn""The Dawn"along a darksome folio shelf, as they have flashed it week after week across darkest Coalchester; and "The Dawn" ceased, at length, not from lack of power and encouragement to continue, but because the world had grown sadder by then, and it had lost the will to go on living.

"I carried am into waste wildernesse, Waste wildernes, amongst Cymerian shades, 370 Where endles paines and hideous heavinesse Is round about me heapt in darksome glades.

Bear Chrysanthus now away To a tower of darksome gloom Which shall be his living tomb.

as if the sight displayed, By its own sparkling foam that small cascade; Inverted shrubs, with moss of gloomy green Cling from the rocks, with pale wood-weeds between. C. Inverted shrubs with pale wood weeds between Cling from the moss-grown rocks, a darksome green, Save where aloft the subtle sunbeams shine And its own twilight softens the whole scene.

His giant-step, as ye full surely know, Measured the circle of the will and deed, Each country's changing thoughts and morals, too, The darksome book with clearness could he read; Yet how he, breathless 'midst his friends so true, Despaired in sorrow, scarce from pain was freed, All this have we, in sadly happy years, For he was ours, bewailed with feeling tears.

Unconscious hurled By winged thought beyond this present life, I seeming woke in a Dark World where rife Was Nothingness,a darksome mist it seemed, All eke was naught;no light for me there gleamed; And floating 'lone, which way I turned, saw naught; Nor felt of substance 'neath my feet, nor fraught With light was Space around; nor cheerful ray Of single star.

From this time forward she shrank with a nervous terror from that darksome passage leading to the padlocked door at the end of the house.

Round this perverted place of ablution runs a stone ledge, some four feet wide, and round that again run the farm buildingsthe house at the top end, a great barn down one side, and the cowhouse, together with certain darksome piggeries and fowl-houses, down the other.

Thracian maids Rent limb from limb sweet Orpheus' frame; And Hylas found a watery grave; Pirithoüs and Theseus pierced Even to Hades' darksome realm To rob that mighty lord of shades Of his radiant spouse, Persephone; But then he seized, and holds them there For aye in chains and endless night.

To the south you may see a darksome roadbroad, smooth, and easy of descent; that is the lower way.

Destruction, bursting from thy sudden blaze Hath taught the Birds to tremble at the sound; And Man himself, thy terror's boasted lord, Within the blacken'd hollow of thy tube, Affrighted sees the darksome shades of Death.

When the leaves shone white, the cavalier would say: "We are so blessed, nature herself doth sprinkle the bridal path with flowers;"or, when there fell a darksome shower, Katherine would press close to her lover's side and say, "Indeed, Julian, these are petals from those blood-red roses that have hung in such profusion all summer.

Often and often have I felt the weight of loneliness press heavy upon me in this darksome tower.

1085 And Peter turns his steps aside Into a shade of darksome trees, Where he sits down, he knows not how, With his hands pressed against his brow, His elbows on his tremulous knees.