 Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might — the majesty of Loveliness...  THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL - Page 286by Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Eyre Hussey - English fiction - 1906 - 356 pages
...at heart. ' Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.' ' Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight ? His changing... | |
 | Gustav Philipp Körner - Illinois - 1909 - 668 pages
...To attempt a description of this charming lady would be a vain task. In the words of Byron: "Who has not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray! Who does not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...beauty's cheek, Nor feel the heart can never all grow old? 350 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 11. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...Was she— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears— but not of grief. 170 spring or summer's ray, 35 Did the sweet valley shine so gay As now it shines ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...above Was she— the daughter. of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears— but not of grief. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beautv's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...haunt, I huvo observed, The air is delicate. MacbKk, Act \. Sc. 6. SllAKESPEAKF. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - Biographical fiction - 1925 - 402 pages
...obedient servant." "Soft as the memory of buried love, Pure as the prayer that Childhood wafts above, Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray? His changing cheek, his failing heart confess The might, the majesty of Loveliness." It struck... | |
 | Eino Railo - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 434 pages
...Pure, as the prayer which Childhood wafts above. Such is Zuleika, of whom the poet is moved to say, Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Inspired by this conception, the poet sings her fate — death for the sake of love — in lines... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...above. Was she— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears— but not of grief. ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Fainls into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...Was she - the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears - but not of grief. 170 Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing... | |
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