 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1826 - 466 pages
...freed 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 death is fled, The first dark day of nothinguess, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 308 pages
...get his Northern friend to visit him afterwards. CHAPTER III. LADY LYDIA S DEATH. WHO MARIA WAS. "He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day...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 - Greece - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...quoted, 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...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise in mutiny. GREECE. BYRON 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 fix'd, yet tender traits that... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...creeping things shall revel in their spoil, And fit thy clay to fertilize the soil. GREECE. BYRON. 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 fix'd yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...freed 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - Greece - 1828 - 474 pages
...intense interest expressed in a more beautiful manner than that in which he speaks of Greece : " He who 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... | |
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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... 
