 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), And marked the mild angelic air, The...  St. George; Or, The Canadian League - Page 271by William Charles McKinnon - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1813 - 574 pages
...this poet so delights to indulge. " 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,...angelic 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... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...angelic 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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...described by the poet — " 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...mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power, So fair, so calm,... | |
 | William Macgregor Stirling - 1815 - 230 pages
...when he says, — " 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...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed, yet tender traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek .... .... So fair, so... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 228 pages
...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....mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, 75 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...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...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, 75 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — hut for that sad... | |
 | 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...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 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...mild angelic 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... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...highly praised, that it is HOW merely necessary to draw the reader's attention to it : He who hath beat him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,...angelic air, The rapture of repose, that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...first day of death is fled, (The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress,) 2 Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed, yet tender traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — 3 but for that sad... | |
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