| Margaret Crosby Munn - 1903 - 304 páginas
...— 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...traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, — ***** So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed." As I drank the... | |
| Samuel Fitch Hotchin - 1903 - 288 páginas
...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...angelic air, The rapture of repose, that's there." The rising of the sun found Penn still cogitating on the days that were gone, and yet turning hopefully... | |
| Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 188 páginas
...his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. PLI 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...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — * * * * And but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for... | |
| Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 190 páginas
...his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. PL I. 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...where beauty lingers— And marked the mild angelic a1r, The rapture of repose that's there— * *. * * And but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires... | |
| Daniel Thomson - 1903 - 372 páginas
...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...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. He feels such anguish, dread, and pain, His heart can never know again ; To him, the sudden, rending... | |
| 1904 - 610 páginas
...PICTURE OP DEATH. FROM " THE GIAOUR." 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...marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose, that 's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 páginas
...one knows in ' The Giaour,' ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead.' The lines which now run : — ' The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there ; The fix'd yet tender traits that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 846 páginas
...one knows in ' The Giaour," ' He •who hath bent him o'er the dead.' The lines which now run : — ' The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And niark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there ; The fix'd yet tender traits that... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 páginas
...which every one knows in The Giaour, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead." The lines which now run : The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there; The fix'd yet tender traits that streak... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 páginas
...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 Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marli'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that... | |
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