 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 էջ
...first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.) And mark'd the mild angchc air — The rapture of repose that's there— 73 The fixed yet tender traits... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 էջ
...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,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits... | |
 | William Macgregor Stirling - 1815 - 230 էջ
...subsided, one of the loftiest poets of this, or of any other age or country, alludes, when he says, — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed, yet tender traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek .... .... So fair, so... | |
 | 1814 - 680 էջ
...and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry, ' 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 էջ
...inheritors of hell — 65 So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! i He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 228 էջ
...first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines....mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, 75 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 էջ
...inheritors of hell ; 65 So soft ,the scene, so formed 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 nothingness, JO The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 էջ
...— The beautiful, but still and melancholy Aspect, of the once busy and glorious Shores of Greece. 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... | |
 | 1820 - 442 էջ
...without Meaning. . 16. The Finis, by Hogarth — Its Companion. The Shore of Athens. BY LORD BYRON. 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 էջ
...freed inheritors of hell ; 65 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 nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
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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... 
