 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 páginas
...Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced. XXVII 235 The moon is up, and yet it is not night Sunset divides...is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be 240 Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the Day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other... | |
 | Elizabeth Silverthorne - 2002 - 268 páginas
...Flemish altarpieces and religious paintings. In Childe Harold Byron described a sunset: "all colours seem to be / Melted to one vast iris of the West, / Where the day joins the past Eternity." And in "Locksley Hall," Tennyson wrote his famous lines: "In the spring a livelier iris changes on... | |
 | Martha Barnette - 2005 - 211 páginas
...once regularly used as an English synonym for rainbow, as in Lord Byron's description of a sunset: Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems...the West, — Where the day joins the past Eternity. Similarly, the rain in Spain falls mainly prior to the appearance of an arco iris in the sky — an... | |
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The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, —... 
