 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, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...  The works of lord Byron - Page 223by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 814 pages
...here I fix my lasting choice, For here true bliss I find ! Doddridge. GREECE. • • • • :*.• He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, ( Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | John Barber - 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...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - 1828 - 474 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...are, for the purpose of impressing moral truth upon the memory, as well as the understanding. Bmttie. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...; While sea-horn gales their gelid wings expand To wiunow fragrance round the smiling land. GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, Tlu- first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | William Heseltine - 1829 - 224 pages
...western wave. CHAPTER XI. THE RECLUSE'S LAST SORROWS AND TRIALS — THK DISSOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of Death is Bed, — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. And mark'd the... | |
 | William Heseltine - 1829 - 222 pages
...^ave. CHAPTER XL RECLUSE'S LAST SORROWS AND TRIALS—THK DISSOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES. He who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of Death is fled,— Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty linger*. And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | 1830 - 426 pages
...of the view, and the only use to which we turn the I Knight* of Malta," — a "History of Muaic» " Who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is lied, ****** Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...Health on the other, thou fallest, an unwieldy and bloated pageant, to the ground GREECE. — Byron; HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...seraphs they assail' d, And, fix'd on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
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