 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 Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale - Page 4de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 75 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John McCosh - 1835 - 100 pages
...indulging in the idea ! How true to nature did these very expressive lines of Byron then appear ! — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death has fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 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 - 1836 - 260 pages
...fixed on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so formed for joy , So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who...death is fled , The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing lmgers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...from the brooding tempest, arm'd with wrath, CommisBion'd to affright us, and destroy. MODERN 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 line where beauty... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...sad spot, And weeping, blessed the God who gave Strength to forsake it not! CXII. 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... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...borne their part — But the noblest thing that perished there Was that young faithful heart ! DEATH. 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 line where beauty... | |
 | 1836 - 388 pages
...he seemed fixed to the spot — to describe his feelings is impossible. Reader, have you ever bent " 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 delay's effacing fingers Hath swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Edmund Spencer - 1836 - 388 pages
...was such a figure as haunted the imagination of Byron, when he penned those beautiful lines : — " 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 where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | Edmund Spencer - 1836 - 826 pages
...was such a figure as haunted the imagination of Byron, when he penned those beautiful lines : — " 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 where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | 1853 - 572 pages
...to the spot — to describe his feelings is impossible. Reader, have you ever bent " o'er the Head, 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 Hath swept the lines where beauty... | |
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