 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
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air— The rapture of repose that's there:— The fix'd, yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | 1828 - 814 pages
...lasting choice, For here true bliss I find ! Doddridge. GREECE. • • • • :*.• 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... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...so highly praised, that it is now merely necessary to draw the reader's attention to it: 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 langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger rim! distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept...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... | |
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - 1828 - 474 pages
...hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death has fled ; Ere decay's effacing fingers Hare swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that'* there ; The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And, but lor... | |
 | 1830 - 426 pages
...a "History of Muaic» " Who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is lied, ****** Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild and plorid air, The rapture of repose that's there. " The hair flows down in a very graceful manner... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...other, thou fallest, an unwieldy and bloated pageant, to the ground GREECE. — Byron; HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...tie which bound the first endures the last. [From The Giaour.] THE FIRST DAY OF DEATH. 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. 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... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - 1833 - 326 pages
...language how true to nature ! ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death be fled, 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 ; Ami, but for that sad, shrouded... | |
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