 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 Arthur Roebuck - 1897 - 466 pages
...looked on her face a few hours after her death, and then saw the truth of those lines of Byron — He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled. To my startled gaze a flush was upon her cheek ; age, and all trace of age, seemed to have vanished,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy! ANCIENT AND MODERN GREECE. HE wtD hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The lirst dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 pages
...of Abydos. From this group of fragmentary poems we take some isolated passages. GREECE IN HER DECAY. 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... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1898 - 368 pages
...impressive language by a great poet whose thoughts were wont to play about the subject of Immortality. " 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... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1898 - 368 pages
...impressive language by a great poet whose thoughts were wont to play about the subject of Immortality. 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 376 pages
...to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in " The Giaour " beginning : " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1899 - 392 pages
...ancestral fame. Hence his pathetic comparison of the suffering degraded country to perishing human nature. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 332 pages
...Greece might still be free." 1. 855. Yet to the remnants, etc. Cf. The Giaour for similar pathos : — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first Last look by death reveal'd, Such is the aspect of this... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...243-256. UP AT A VILLA— DOWN IN THE CITY GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON ^1788-1824) GREECE THE GIAOUR Нв 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 llave swept the Unes where beauty... | |
 | Walter J. Clark - 1901 - 116 pages
...tete, et lui montrant du doigt L'Etre pale, etendu sans vie et sans pensee. The Giaour: He who bath 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 . . . . . . Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might... | |
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