 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 էջ
...freed inheritors of hell ; 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, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 էջ
...freed inheritors of hell; 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, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing lmgers... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 էջ
...wings as thine, And such a head between them. GREECE, AS IT IMPRESSED THE MIND OF THE POET IN 1810. 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... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 էջ
...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 էջ
...yet to come', And hears thy stormy musick in the drum*. SECTION XII. Address to Greece. — 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... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 էջ
...Free from doubt and faithless sorrow ! God provideth for the morrow. " MODERN GREECE. BY LORD BYRON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day ef nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 210 էջ
...FIRST DEATH. How awful, yet not unfrequently how beautiful, how very beautiful the aspect of death ! " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Er'e the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; Uefore decay's effacing... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1839 - 920 էջ
...steps, a short turning, a dark narrow passage, and they were in the chamber of death ! — CHAPTER IX. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death hath fled,— The fint dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 էջ
...the terrible beauty of death ? who has not, in some degree, felt, what poetry only can describe ? " 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.) - 1842 - 866 էջ
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy 1 t, Eternity forbids thee to forget." With slow and searching glance upon The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing flngers... | |
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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... 
