 | Constancy - 1844 - 936 pages
...repeated in a half audihle voice the lines : He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness — The...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there. And — but for that cold, changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing; mourner's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...fust dark day of nothingness, The l;it of danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Hare res of character and situation. Other models were...whose ' Gil Bias,' and ' Devil on Two Sticks,' im check—- And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — wins not — weeps not — now... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1844 - 186 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 fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | Theology - 626 pages
...congregational use. BEAUTY IN DEATH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild angelic air, Ta« rapture of repose that 's there i The flx'd, yet tender tress, that... | |
 | Francis Close - Sermons, English - 1844 - 426 pages
...it shall be well with you in that awful moment which an Infidel poet has falsely described as — " The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress." When all earthly props are falling, when your father and mother forsake you, when your flesh and your... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...o'er the dead, Ere the first dav of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last ol* danger and distress ; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where heanty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose thara» there. The fixed yet... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Bible - 1889 - 434 pages
...an instance of the first kind. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, E're the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swepf the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...or down the glowing side. The Waltz. He who hath hent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The...decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where heanty lingers. The Giaonr. Line 08. Snch is the aspect of this shore ; 'T is Greece, hat living Greece... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1891 - 752 pages
...joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death but not before The ground, with cautious tread, is...Lest aught unseen should lurk to thwart his His arms \vhere beauty lingers,' And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 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 streak... | |
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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... 
