 | Van Campen Heilner - 1922 - 290 pages
...help but think of that verse of Byron's: "Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang embues With a new colour, as it gasps away. The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." Our experience with the dolphin practically ended our fishing... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...magical variety diffuse. And now they change: a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, 260 The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. Rome... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...onward, mantled o'er with sober gray ; Nature in silence bid the world repose. The Hermit. T. PARNE1.U Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone — and all is gray. Childe Harold,... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1927 - 310 pages
...magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. 1817. (e) Canto iv, CLXXIX-CLXXXIV: THE OCEAN ROLL on,... | |
 | 1909 - 656 pages
...delicate rosepink merging into violet and lavender. "A paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away — The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." Then... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1991 - 422 pages
...to watch the sun setting across the Mediterranean, softly repeating to himself Byron's lines : — " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." ' In home-life he was a pattern of courtesy. His servants... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; is majesty was always so polite Ae to announce his...Before he came, especially at night ; For being the tUl— 'tis gone — and all is gray. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues 260 With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till - 'tis gone - and all is gray. There is a tomb in Arqua; - rear'd in air, Pillar'd in their sarcophagus,... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 268 pages
...earth: "the icy earth/Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air" (Byron 1980-1993, vol. 4, 40)1' 1 parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till - 'tis gone - and all is gray. (IV, 29) 3. "Cette Palmyre de la mer" The fata morgana-\iAat quality... | |
 | Shirley King - 1999 - 388 pages
...however, as they die: Their skin turns a silvery gray the longer they are out of water. Lord Byron wrote: Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is grey The bodies of dolphinfish are very compressed, and the males... | |
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Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day... 
