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... The Giaour - Página 4de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1821 - 712 páginas
...by 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,... | |
| 1813 - 574 páginas
...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... | |
| 1812 - 576 páginas
...and 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...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 páginas
...that where all is peace beside There passion riots in her pride, And lust and rapine wildly reign 60 To darken o'er the fair domain. It is as though the...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| 1813 - 716 páginas
...consul at Athens. — FORT FOLIO. Receives him by the lovely light That bent becomes an eastern night. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...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... | |
| 1813 - 580 páginas
...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...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... | |
| 1813 - 550 páginas
...and 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...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... | |
| 1813 - 662 páginas
...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...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... | |
| 1813 - 1102 páginas
...on 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...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... | |
| 1813 - 560 páginas
...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...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
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