 Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Page 3891813Full view - About this book
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...but living Greece no more So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We slart, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, Expression'* last receding; ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd ! Such is the...round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away, — Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherish'd... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...but living Greece no more So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away ! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hera is the loveliness in death, That parts nol lt chamberlain, who, clothed and fetx^ * Stands haunt« it to the tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A cilded halo hovering ronnd decay, The farewell... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd! Such is the...round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away, — Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherish'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...living Greece no more 1 So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers abhorrence upon the shore; I rush into fire — the flames recoil ! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams— but warms no more its cherished... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Here is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath ;...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling pass'd away ! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death That parts not quite with...breath : But beauty with that fearful bloom, That here which haunts it to the torab ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay,... | |
 | Thomas O'Dwyer - 1876 - 332 pages
...lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild angelic air — The sweetness of repose that's there : Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay ; The farewell beam of feeling passed away." With such thoughts uppermost in my mind, I bade adieu to the Sister and took my departure... | |
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