 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who bath bent him o'er the dead ( I ; lady centuries old, whose name I forget, but whose...remembered. I never saw greater beauty, or sweetness fingen i Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, \ The rapture... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. He' . . who hath bent him o'er the dead', Ere the first day o!' death'. . is fled', The first dark day of nothingness*,...lines where beauty lingers',) And marked the mild', angelick air', The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak'... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy 1 He < N$D O O K N O N flngers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of... | |
 | Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge - 1842 - 298 pages
...them. Not one thing speaks of death, but that meekly closed eye and that motionless form ! " Who that hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...pardon for all my faults;" —then placed the children safely in the boat, and plunged into Eternity. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild, angelic air— The rapture of repose that's there— The fix'd, yet tender, traits... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 332 pages
...might still be free." 1. 855. Yet to the remnants, etc. Cf. The Giaour for similar pathos : — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first Last look by death reveal'd, Such is the aspect of this... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...243-256. UP AT A VILLA— DOWN IN THE CITY GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON ^1788-1824) GREECE THE GIAOUR Нв who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers llave swept the Unes where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 pages
...beautiful lines — especially the passage comparing modern Greece to a newly lifeless corpse : — Before decay's effacing fingers. , Have swept the...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek. And with that sad and shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not... | |
 | Walter J. Clark - 1901 - 116 pages
...tete, et lui montrant du doigt L'Etre pale, etendu sans vie et sans pensee. The Giaour: He who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress . . . . . . Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power. So fair,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...Stanza 186. Hands promiscuously applied, Bound the slight waist, or down the glowing side. The Waltz. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beanty lingers. The Giaour. Line 68. Snch is the aspect of this shore ; 'T is Greece, but living Greece... | |
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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... 
