 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
 | William Thomas Stead - 1908
...no languor on the placid cheek nor " cold destruction " on " the changeless brow." There was all " the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath " ; but in place of the " gilded halo hovering round decay," we saw with wonder and with awe the presence of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1911 - 185 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...fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, ao Expression's last receding ray, A gilded Halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 816 pages
...soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; 05 blasted, U All wasted? Not so, my heart; but there...pleasures; leave thy cold dispute 2C Of what is fit away ! 1 00 Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Wbich gleams, but warms no more its cherished... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 816 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About 95 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 816 pages
...but living Greece no morel So coldly sweet, so deadly fair. We start, for soul is wanting there. Hera unched on the bosom of the silver Thames. Fairy nymphs, and well-dres 95 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 1100 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 cherished... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1814
...living Greece no more! We start—for soul is wanting there. So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 860 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more I So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. {hx{w|w w } z z z hut receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling pass'd away 1 Sparkofthatflame.perch... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 830 pages
...stab the countenance preserves its traits of feeling or ferocity, and the mind its bias, to the last. But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which...receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, 10o The farewell beam of Feeling past away! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which... | |
 | Vesna Goldsworthy - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 254 pages
...- 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...that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb.37 The ancient glory of Athens represents for Byron the foundation of Europeanness now tragically... | |
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