 | 1812 - 576 pages
...recollect in the whole compass of poetry. ' 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' 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...fingers Have 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... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " 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...fingers Have 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... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' 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...fingers Have 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... | |
 | 1813 - 560 pages
...wrought and characteristic specimen. ' 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 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 pages
...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...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) s And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there— 75 The fixed yet tender... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...described by the poet — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power, So fair, so calm,... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's...tender traits that streak The languor of the placid check, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — wins not — weeps not— now—-... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1814 - 378 pages
...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...fingers Have swept 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... | |
 | William Macgregor Stirling - Inchmahome Priory (Aberfoyle, Scotland) - 1815 - 230 pages
...when he says, — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled .... .... Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek .... .... So fair, so calm, so softly sealed The first,— last look,— by death revealed !" Lord... | |
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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... 
