 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
 | Ken Gelder - Social Science - 2000 - 414 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 with parting breath . . . (lines 91-5) A hero appears who is neither Greek nor Turkish - the Giaour in this poem was once... | |
 | Margaret Kathleen Martin, Peggy Martin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 284 pages
...which all are compelled to take some interest. To-day the dead bride of the sea, but lovely still, for "hers is the loveliness in death, that parts not quite with parting breath." Float with me down the Grand Canal. Nothing in the world could be more comfortable than these charming... | |
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