 And marked the mild, 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 eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill, changeless...  The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 84by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...'mid the setting blaze, '. The flush of love upon his raptured gaze. PORTRAIT OF DEATH. Lord Byron. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air— The rapture of repose that's there:—... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...form'd for joy. So curst the tyrants that destroy! lie who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the tii>l day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark d the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. The fix'd, yet tender traits that... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...relaxes into 10 Pity,'with the addition of much " Solemnity as the description draws to a conclusion. 1 He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...of nothingness, The last of danger and distress,) 2 Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1826 - 466 pages
...freed inheritors of hell; 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 nothinguess, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 308 pages
...could get his Northern friend to visit him afterwards. CHAPTER III. LADY LYDIA S DEATH. WHO MARIA WAS. "He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay's offensive fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1827 - 314 pages
...attested by the following passage :— He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ;— Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,— And mark'd the mild... | |
 | Thomas R. Jolliffe, Thomas Robert Jolliffe - Albania - 1827 - 304 pages
...attested by the following passage : — He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; — Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers, — And mark'd the... | |
 | English poetry - 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...fixed, yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And, — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now,... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...quoted, and so highly praised, that it is now merely necessary to draw the reader's attention to it: He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...creeping things shall revel in their spoil, And fit thy clay to fertilize the soil. GREECE. BYRON. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak... | |
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