 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...parting friends : — such death be mine ! * MODERN GREECE.— BYROK. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...danger and distress — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers — And mark'd the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | 1847 - 312 pages
...mingling with the sky." 4. — Profound Repose. [ASPECT OF DEATH: FROM BYRON'S DESCRIPTION OP GREECE.] The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...and distress, — (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, — The rapture of repose... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...PRESS !" . HORACE GREELEY. LESSON CXXXVIII. MODERN GREECE. BYEOH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of .death is fled, The first dark...and distress, — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers-, And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...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...danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,') And mark'd the mild angelic air. The rapture of repose... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...where it dares defy, And making Death a Victory. MODERN GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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...danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty linger*?), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose,... | |
 | 1848 - 310 pages
...mingling with the sky." 4. — Profound Repose. [ASPECT OF DEATH : FROM BYRON'S DESCRIPTION OF GREECE.] The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...and distress, — (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, — The rapture of repose... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - 476 pages
...Rapt, and dissolved in ecstacy, to heaven. XCVII.— GREECE. BYBON. 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, FAME. 43D (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And inark'd... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1887 - 512 pages
...shortly after dissolution : — He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | 1888 - 462 pages
...Miraturque malum. Could this have suggested the lines in the Giaour ? — He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
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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... 
