 He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...  The works of lord Byron - Page 62by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1814 - 680 pages
...more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry, ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | 1815 - 422 pages
...succeeded she withdrew with customary tokens of good- will. CHAP. VII. He who hath bent him o'er the (lend, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, And marked the mild angelic air, The rvpture of repose, that's there,. The fixed yet tender tracks,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...inheritors of hell ; 65 So soft ,the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, JO The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...beautiful, but still and melancholy Aspect, of the once busy and glorious Shores of Greece. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...(Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines vrbere oeauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there —... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1820 - 442 pages
...Meaning. . 16. The Finis, by Hogarth — Its Companion. The Shore of Athens. BY LORD BYRON. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...swept the lines where beauty lingers, > And mark'd the mind, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — The fix'd, yet tender tracts that streak... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! * He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | Art and literature - 1820 - 624 pages
...venant de mourir , conserve encore un reste de beauté , sans conserver la chaleur de la vie. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...nothingness The last of danger and distress , Before de cay's effacing fingers Had swept the lines where beauty lingers He still might doubt thc tyrant's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 pages
...inheritors of hell ; 65 So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...inheritors of hell ; - So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...fragment, " The Giaour :"— " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...yet tender, traits that streak ] The languor of the pallid cheek ; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, — The first, last look, by death reveal'd." But... | |
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