 Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 194by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - Greece - 1828 - 510 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay." All this he felt, and others too have felt, while standing among the ruins of the Parthenon, surrounded... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Her» is the loveliness in death. That parts not quite with...But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunt» it to the tomb, Expression's last receding r.iy, A gilded halo hovering round decay, Thr farewell... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath 1 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...To torture thus each other, though it were The deadliest sin to love as we have loved. Id. Here is a loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting...hovering round decay. The farewell beam of feeling past away ! Id. LOUGH, ns Sax. luh, laju; Goth, laug ; Teut. Ittch ; Irish loch. A. lake or body of stand.'ng... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomh, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling... | |
 | John Galt - 1830 - 348 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hov'ring round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away. Spark of .that flame, perchance of heavenly... | |
 | John Galt - Poets, English - 1830 - 404 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hov'ring round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away. Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly... | |
 | John Galt - Poets, English - 1830 - 404 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding ray, The farewell beam of feeling past awny. Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams,... | |
 | John Galt - Poets, English - 1830 - 352 pages
...deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quita with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful...tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hov'ring round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away. Spark of that rtame, perchance of heavenly... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers, is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite...hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished... | |
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