 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...  The works of lord Byron - Page 62by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 814 pages
...fix my 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...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... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...and 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...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... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 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...first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger rim! distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers; And marked... | |
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - 1828 - 510 pages
...Greece : " He who hath bent him o.er the dead, E'er the first day of death has fled ; E'er decay.s effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...scene, so fonn'd for joy, So curbl the tyrants that destroy! He who h.ith bent him o'er the dead, Err the first day of death is fled. The first dark day of nothingness The last of danger and disln ч$ ^rWore decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...smiling land. GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, Tlu- first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad sbrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...the purpose of impressing moral truth upon the memory, as well as the understanding. Bmttie. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. Byron. He travelled sorely, and made many a tack, His sails oft shifting, to arrive, dread thought... | |
 | William Heseltine - 1829 - 224 pages
...DISSOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of Death is Bed, — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd, yet tender, tints that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And— but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...on the 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...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...mark'd 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 — hut... | |
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