 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 sidor
...tyrants that destroy ! He who hath b nt him o'er the dead(l) Ere the first day of death is fled, The 6rst dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's efuciug fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture... | |
 | Frank Hall Standish - 1837 - 360 sidor
...had bleached a beard now never to grow again. I confess I look with pain on burials and on deaths; on The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, when hopes and fears and tumultuous passions, all that agitates and afflicts and delights mankind,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 sidor
...wings as thine, And such a head between them. GREECE, AS IT IMPRESSED THE MIND OF THE POET IN 1810. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 sidor
...yet to come', And hears thy stormy musick in the drum*. SECTION XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. He' . . who hath bent him o'er the dead', Ere the...fingers' Have swept the lines where beauty lingers',) And marked the mild', angelick air*, The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender',... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 sidor
...Free from doubt and faithless sorrow ! God provideth for the morrow. " MODERN GREECE. BY LORD BYRON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day ef nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines... | |
 | Samuel Fitch Hotchin - 1903 - 288 sidor
...state, but was compelled to give up the vain search. Byron's poem on Greece illustrates the feeling: " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of life is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 sidor
...Death) ; The worm and butterfly — it is not long! SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT. A PICTURE OF DEATH. FROM HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 sidor
...which every one knows in The Giaour, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead." The lines which now run : The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there; The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek; originally ran : The first dark... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 sidor
...one knows in ' The Giaour,' ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead.' The lines which now run : — ' The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there ; The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek ' ; originally ran : — ' The... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 sidor
...hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, 70 ike on his breast, Though oft and long beneath its weight Upon his eyes had slumber sate, 341 that 's there, The tixM yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
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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... 
