 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...So curst the tyrants that destroy ! 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...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 that... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...draw the reader's attention to it : • He who hath beat him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, . The...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) A nd marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose, that's there, The fixed yet tender traits... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...SHORES OFTNCIENT GREECE. BV LORD BYRON. 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 tinkers Have swept the lines where beanty lingers} Ami inark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...joy. So curst the tyrants that destroy! lie who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the tii>l day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...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 that... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...gaze. PORTRAIT OF DEATH. Lord Byron. 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...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:—... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1826 - 466 pages
...hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothinguess, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beanty lingers), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd, yet... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...description draws to a conclusion. 1 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,) 2 Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 308 pages
...LADY LYDIA S DEATH. WHO MARIA WAS. "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 offensive fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1827 - 314 pages
...attested by the following passage :— He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ;— Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,— And mark'd the mild... | |
 | Thomas R. Jolliffe, Thomas Robert Jolliffe - Albania - 1827 - 304 pages
...attested by the following passage : — He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; — Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers, — And mark'd the... | |
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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... 
