 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. GREECE. 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 fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...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...lines where beauty lingers',) And marked the mild', angelick air*, The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak'... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...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... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1839 - 920 pages
...fint dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Hare swept the lines where beauty lingers ; — And marked...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there ! — And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, weeps not, wins not, now , And but for that... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...the terrible beauty of death ? who has not, in some degree, felt, what poetry only can describe ? " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...mild angelic air. The rapture of repose that's there , And, but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And, but for that chill... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge - 1842 - 298 pages
...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...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The languor of that placid cheek,— And but for that sad shrouded eye That fires not, wins not, weeps... | |
 | 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 t, Eternity forbids thee to forget." With slow and...there could trace They knew, or chose to know — wit flngers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of... | |
 | 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'... | |
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And marked the 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 eye... 
