 Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 711854Full view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...otherwise than surpassingly, divinely beautiful. What an opening to the tale of fallen Sovereignty ! " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 790 pages
...any thing exceeds in silent grandeur the opening of the poem, which exhibits Saturn m his solitude : Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn. Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hairM Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...fable of the autient gods dethroned by the younger. ' Deep I . Keats's Lamia, and other Poems. 307 ' Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...a deep and solitary valley, benumbed in epite of bis huge powers with the amazement of the change. Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, ' I Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 606 pages
...from her bright home amidst the morn, f Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Nat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forert on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud, p. 145. a line in the old poem called the... | |
 | 1821 - 498 pages
...any thing exceeds in silent grandeur the opening of the poem, which exhibits Saturn in his solitude : Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from the healthy breath of mom, Far from the nery noon, and eve's once star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone. Still as... | |
 | Classical philology - 1826 - 360 pages
...have suggested the admirable description of Saturn's place of exile, in the Hyperion of John Keats : Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
 | Sumner Lincoln Fairfield - 1830 - 172 pages
...imagination to the refuge of the fallen god : — " Deep in the shady sadness of the vale, Far snnken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's lone star, Sat grey haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...their armour : these the squadron led, August, divine, superior by the head ! — Shield of Achilles. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...poem of Hyperion, where he describes the dethroned monarch of the gods, sitting in his exile : — Deep in the shady sadness of a vale. Far sunken from...morn. Far from the fiery noon, and Eve's one star, Sate grey-huir'd Saturn, quiet as a stone. Quiet as a stone I Nothing certainly can be more quiet than... | |
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