 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 384 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...50. THE BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. 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... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pages
...grammarian's work, would be to suppose that Newton made the stars or Werner the mountains. 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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...or fast, The tie which bound the first endures the last. [From The Giaour.] THE FIRST DAY OF DEATH. 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... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1832 - 572 pages
...deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed. He, who hath hent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept those lines where heauty lingers: And mark'd the mild, angelic... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...of it as a spark; and they shah1 both burn together, and none shall quench them. ASPECT OF GREECE. 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... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - 1833 - 326 pages
...expressive aspect, which belongs to such an hour, and which Byron depicts in language how true to nature ! ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death be fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...all persons on a like march the perusal of the beautiful lines in the Giaour on Death, beginning, " 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... | |
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