 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 868 pages
...tyrants that destroy 1 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 flngers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...into Eternity. 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...that's there— The fix'd, yet tender, traits that atreak The languor of the placid cheek, 1 Odyssey, xvii. (Pope's Translation). U And—but for that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...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 nothingness, The last of danger and distress,...mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...cursed the tyrants that destroy ! 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 marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 186 pages
...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 nothingness, The last of danger and distress...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... | |
 | Constancy - 1844 - 936 pages
...voice the lines : 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...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there. And — but for that cold, changeless... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Modern Greece.'} lie who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first weaklier child, Of a soft check, and aspect delicate ; But the boy bore up long, and with a mild marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1887 - 512 pages
...dissolution : — He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress,...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. In the Keltic — if it be true,... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 pages
...the first kind. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, E're the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress,...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there,. The fixed yet tender traits that... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 434 pages
...the first kind. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, E're the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swepf the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that... | |
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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 (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... 
