I had a dream, which was not all a dream. Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black. Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food. Which answer'd not with a caress—he died. Famine …

Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black. Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food. Which answer'd not with a caress—he died. Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, A …

"Darkness" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816 on the theme of an apocalyptic end of the world which was published as part of the 1816 The Prisoner of Chillon collection.

Byron’s ‘Darkness’ explores death through the imagery of an apocalyptic event that extinguishes all life and light. The poem describes a world where human and natural elements succumb to …

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Darkness Lord Byron I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless; and the icy …

Poem Darkness by Lord Byron : Black cushion, smotherer of murdered princes, its weight deposing the last breath of light...

Commonly classed as a ‘last man’ poem, Lord Byron’s ‘Darkness’ tells of an environmental apocalypse in which all natural light has been “extinguished”.

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black. Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food. Which answer'd not with a caress—he died. Famine …

Darkness. I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth …