 | Charles Mackay - 1887 - 512 pàgines
...of the placid and most beautiful appearance of the face of the dead, shortly after 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, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | Heliodorus (of Emesa.) - 1889 - 576 pàgines
...Increased his fury and affright." — Byron. t " Totum est pro corpore vulnus." — Lucan ix. 814. J " 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... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 pàgines
...of lifeless beauty and its apposite analogy — fallen Greece, is an instance of 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 174 pàgines
...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. — though the idea of actual sleep is not raised in this admirably beautiful and admirably realistic... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 192 pàgines
...— Death, and his brother Sleep ! ' &c. The mind may also revert to the noble passage in Byron's ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,1 &c. — though the idea of actual sleep is not raised in this admirably beautiful and admirably... | |
 | 1893 - 564 pàgines
...Increased his fury and affright." — Byron. f' " Totum est prc corpore vulnus." — Lucan ix. 814. J " 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... | |
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - 1893 - 356 pàgines
...that there are lines in the composition which must forever keep their place in the poetry of Death : " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the uiild angelic... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pàgines
...Cape ? When ? How long did the foreign empire of Portugal last » What led to iu fall r GREECE. HK 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,... | |
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - 1893 - 358 pàgines
...lines in the composition which must forever keep their place in the poetry of Death : " He who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | John Reynolds Francis - 1894 - 412 pàgines
...men died, and others did not, death might be considered.an enemy; but being universal, it cannot be. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last day of danger and distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,... | |
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The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye... 
