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... Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man - Page 28by Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
| English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...the waiul of an enchanter, rather than reared by human hands. Myst. of Udol. v. Í. p. 34. Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, ite. See the rest of this beautiful passage, »s far as Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece,... | |
| 1812 - 576 pages
...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... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...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...air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fii'd yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
| 1813 - 550 pages
...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.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...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, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...an eastern audience, and of the grotesque declamation and gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' 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... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " 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... | |
| 1813 - 560 pages
...delight; and we cannot refrain from quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' 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 fmgers... | |
| 1813 - 662 pages
...shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' 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... | |
| 1813 - 552 pages
...day of nothingness, The last of dangeY and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept tlie lines where beauty lingers;) And mark'd 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 —... | |
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