 Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 194by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English drama - 1883 - 1162 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling pass'd away! • The guitar is the constant amusement of the Greek sailor by night; with a steady fair... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...WITH TOMBS OP THE SPARTANS. So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death That parts not quite...hovering round decay — The farewell beam of feeling passed away ! Spark of that flame, that flame of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 pages
...Greece no more ! LORD BYRON. So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, He starts — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away ! Spark of that flame — that flame of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling passed away! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...back to her native country, Scotland, and there in Aberdeeushire placed the hoy at a vilhtiIe school. But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb." Then bursting from these strains of pity, he changes into grander notes of patriotism : " Clime of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 260 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherish'd... | |
 | Richard S. Rhodes - American poetry - 1885 - 444 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling passed away! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath ;...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame, perchance o' heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more ifi cherished... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling pasl away ! Spark of that flame, perchance c/ heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished... | |
 | William Henry Hastings Kelke - 1885 - 332 pages
...continued metre from becoming monotonous. It is specially conspicuous in eight- or ten-syllable verse. In " Hers is the loveliness | in death || That parts not...fearful bloom, || That hue which haunts it | to the tomb " (Byron) the Csesural Pause in the four lines is after the sixth, fourth, third, and fifth syllables... | |
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