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 - Página 62por George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1813 - 574 páginas
...this poet so delights to indulge. " 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,...• Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits... | |
| 1812 - 576 páginas
...more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air—- The rapture of repose... | |
| 1813 - 716 páginas
...Athens. — FORT FOLIO. Receives him by the lovely light That bent becomes an eastern night. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fii'd yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
| 1813 - 550 páginas
...more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere, the first day of...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... | |
| 1813 - 1102 páginas
...eastern audience, and of the grotesque declamation and gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...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... | |
| 1813 - 662 páginas
...Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...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... | |
| 1813 - 580 páginas
...but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits... | |
| 1813 - 560 páginas
...and we cannot refrain from quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 páginas
...inheritors of hell — 65 So soft 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 day of nothingness, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 páginas
...bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's...the lines where beauty lingers.) And mark'd the mild angchc air — The rapture of repose that's there— 73 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The... | |
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