 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
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...inheritors of hell ; 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...that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak TLe languor of the placid cheek, And — bat for that sad shrouded eye. That fires not, wins not, weeps... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...concentered recompense, Triumphant where it dares defy, And making Death a Victory. MODERN GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...deep with " LONG LIFE TO THE PRESS !" . HORACE GREELEY. LESSON CXXXVIII. MODERN GREECE. BYEOH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...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... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...deny that it has expression:— " 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...traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And—but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...inheritors of hell ; 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...effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty linger*?), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose, that 's there, The fix'd yet tender... | |
 | Elocution - 1848 - 310 pages
...mingling with the sky." 4. — Profound Repose. [ASPECT OF DEATH : FROM BYRON'S DESCRIPTION OF GREECE.] The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...mingling with the sky." 4. — Profound Repose. [ASPECT OF DEATH : FROM BYRON'S DESCRIPTION OP GREECE.] The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Elocution - 1887 - 476 pages
...with the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstacy, to heaven. XCVII.— GREECE. BYBON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, FAME. 43D (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And inark'd... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English language - 1887 - 512 pages
...shortly after dissolution : — He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. In the Keltic — if it be true,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. e. BYBON— Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 3. He -who hath bout him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...Have swept the lines where beauty lingers)— And mark d the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. /. BYBON— 1 he Giaour. Line 68.... | |
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