 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...from the brooding tempest, arm'd with wrath, CommisBion'd to affright us, and destroy. MODERN GREECE. 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...freed inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so formed 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, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing lmgers... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...wings as thine, And such a head between them. GREECE, AS IT IMPRESSED THE MIND OF THE POET IN 1810. 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... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. GREECE. 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... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...Free from doubt and faithless sorrow ! God provideth for the morrow. " MODERN GREECE. BY LORD BYRON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day ef nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...yet to come', And hears thy stormy musick in the drum*. SECTION XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. 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... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 210 pages
...FIRST DEATH. How awful, yet not unfrequently how beautiful, how very beautiful the aspect of death ! " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Er'e the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; Uefore decay's effacing... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1839 - 920 pages
...steps, a short turning, a dark narrow passage, and they were in the chamber of death ! — CHAPTER IX. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death hath fled,— The fint dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...the terrible beauty of death ? who has not, in some degree, felt, what poetry only can describe ? " 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.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy 1 t, Eternity forbids thee to forget." With slow and searching glance upon The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing flngers... | |
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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... 
