 And marked the mild, 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 eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill, changeless...  The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - 84. oldalszerző: Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 oldal
...tyrants that destroy ! He who hath b nt him o'er the dead(l) Ere the first day of death is fled, The 6rst dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's efuciug fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture... | |
 | Frank Hall Standish - 1837 - 360 oldal
...had bleached a beard now never to grow again. I confess I look with pain on burials and on deaths; on The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, when hopes and fears and tumultuous passions, all that agitates and afflicts and delights mankind,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 oldal
...wings as thine, And such a head between them. GREECE, AS IT IMPRESSED THE MIND OF THE POET IN 1810. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now,... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 oldal
...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. GREECE. 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 fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 oldal
...yet to come', And hears thy stormy musick in the drum*. SECTION XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. He' . . who hath bent him o'er the dead', Ere the...lines where beauty lingers',) And marked the mild', angelick air*, The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak'... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1903 - 400 oldal
...extended and elaborated simile is furnished by Byron's poem The Giaour, in the passage that begins with He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. Here we read twenty-two lines of exquisite description before we come to the turn and the application... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1903 - 394 oldal
...extended and elaborated simile is furnished by Byron's poem The Giaour, in the passage that begins with He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. Here we read twenty-two lines of exquisite description before we come to the turn and the application... | |
 | Margaret Crosby Munn - 1903 - 304 oldal
...alone could express the majesty of Madame de Ravatz's face in death — and they only can tell it now. "He who hath 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, Before Decay's effacing... | |
 | Daniel Thomson - 1903 - 372 oldal
...members, paid their " cans,"" and pronounced the following words from Byron's " Giaur " : — • " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death ia fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | Samuel Fitch Hotchin - 1903 - 288 oldal
...state, but was compelled to give up the vain search. Byron's poem on Greece illustrates the feeling: " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of life is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's... | |
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