 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
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...Stanza 186. Hands promiscuously applied, Bound the slight waist, or down the glowing side. The Waltz. 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 lines where beanty... | |
 | Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 188 pages
...whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemagne with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. PLI 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... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1903 - 470 pages
...gazes on a lifeless maiden, and asks why is this promise and perfection of life laid low and sealed. " 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Arthur Octavius Prickard - 1903 - 186 pages
...and his brother Sleep ! ' &c. The mind may also revert to the noble passage in Byron's Giaour : — 'He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,' &c. — ' Thank Heaven, the crisis, The danger, is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1903 - 400 pages
...extended and elaborated simile is furnished by Byron's poem The Giaour, in the passage that begins with He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. Here we read twenty-two lines of exquisite description before we come to the turn and the application... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1903 - 394 pages
...extended and elaborated simile is furnished by Byron's poem The Giaour, in the passage that begins with He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. Here we read twenty-two lines of exquisite description before we come to the turn and the application... | |
 | Margaret Crosby Munn - 1903 - 304 pages
...alone could express the majesty of Madame de Ravatz's face in death — and they only can tell it now. "He who hath 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, Before Decay's effacing... | |
 | Daniel Thomson - 1903 - 372 pages
...members, paid their " cans,"" and pronounced the following words from Byron's " Giaur " : — • " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death ia fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | Samuel Fitch Hotchin - 1903 - 288 pages
...state, but was compelled to give up the vain search. Byron's poem on Greece illustrates the feeling: " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of life is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...Death) ; The worm and butterfly — it is not long! SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT. A PICTURE OF DEATH. FROM 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 lines where beauty... | |
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