...cunningly varied line lengths and deliberately varied metrical feet respond to the movement of the emotion: O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great word, "Let there be light, and...

...lyric utterance of short and long lines, ebbing and flowing with the speaker's almost unbearable pain: O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and...

...without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, "Let there be light, and...

...wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool In power of others, never in my own; Scarce halfl seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! [67-82] In simple truth we cannot tell when this and Samson's other...

...poetry, as Samson describes his being 'exiled from light': Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the...

...this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. 7656 Samson Agonistes rds ... like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at comm eclipse Without all hope of day! 7657 Samson Agonistes The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon,...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, "Let there be light, and...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first-created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and...

...Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day. . . . The Sun to me is dark and silent as the moon. Sampson recognizes...