 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pàgines
...shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth. MODERN GREECE. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of dealh is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pàgines
...that corse, to which Byron compares Greece, whose soul had passed away, while its beauty remained: 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 mnrk'd the mild, angelic... | |
 | Casimir Delavigne - 1852 - 270 pàgines
...froide, inanimée ; (I) Tout le monde connait ces beaux vers de lord Byron He who hath beat him o'er tbe dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of uothingness The last of dani;cr and clistress... etc. La Grèce morte !... Arrête, et regarde ses... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pàgines
...corse, to which Byron compares Greece, whose soul had passed away, while its beauty remained: *' Be who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death it fled — Before decay's effacing fingen Have swept the tines where beauty lingen — And mark'd... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1854 - 128 pàgines
...and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 8. He, who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of doath has fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's... | |
 | William Clark Larrabee - 1855 - 292 pàgines
...scenes kindled up the light of genius in the poet, and people are there, too; but, alas, how changed! " 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 sweet angelic... | |
 | Rowland Smith - 1855 - 552 pàgines
...his fury and affright." — Byron. •)• " 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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1855 - 152 pàgines
...and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Home to rise and mutiny. 8. 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 of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pàgines
...association, is deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed : — 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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pàgines
...memory a sharp sword. And poignantly is this felt by many, whilst standing by the unburied dead. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death be fled," •will hardly escape some pangs from memory's reproach; if the marble form before him held,... | |
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The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye... 
