 | 1812 - 576 pages
...dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd...air—- The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd...angelic air— The rapture of repose that's there— The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And—but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers) And mark'd...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 - 560 pages
...The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd...air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender trails that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers;) And mark'd...air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | 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 —... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) s And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there— 75 The fixed yet tender traits that streak \ The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that... | |
 | Literature - 1814 - 680 pages
...The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd...air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 pages
...first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — 75 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines vrbere oeauty 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 — but for that sad shrouded... | |
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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,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The... 
