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" Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day... "
Beauties of the Country: Or, Descriptions of Rural Customs, Objects, Scenery ... - Page 283
by Thomas Miller - 1837 - 425 pages
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...glass'd within it glows, xxrx. Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the lory of their line. CXLVni. He went to mosque in etate, and said his prayers tUl— 'tis gone — and all is gray. XXX. There is a tomb in Arqua ; — rear'd in air, Pillar'd in...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...glows, Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, 255 From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: XXIX And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like...
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The Wing-and-Wing

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1998 - 450 pages
...down upon the waters; all its hues, From the eich sunset to the rising star, Their mngical oarieiy diffuse; And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies tike the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still looetiest,...
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Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of Venice

Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - History - 1999 - 268 pages
...earth: "the icy earth/Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air" (Byron 1980-1993, vol. 4, 40)1' 1 parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...still loveliest, till - 'tis gone - and all is gray. (IV, 29) 3. "Cette Palmyre de la mer" The fata morgana-\iAat quality of Venice rising like an exotic...
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Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition

Joanne Wilkes - Comparative literature - 1999 - 232 pages
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Fish, the Basics: An Illustrated Guide to Selecting and Cooking Fresh Seafood

Shirley King - Cooking - 1999 - 388 pages
...however, as they die: Their skin turns a silvery gray the longer they are out of water. Lord Byron wrote: Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is grey The bodies of dolphinfish are very compressed, and the males have high foreheads. l HI content...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...the mischievous gargoyle (imitative base garg; whence also gargle and gurgle), imbricate. Seeandho. Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...last still loveliest, till 'tis gone and all is gray. -Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, iv om(s): shoulder. Gk omos. omodynia. omoplate, omophore: in Hindu,...
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The Past, the Present, and the Future

Henry C. Carey - 2001 - 477 pages
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Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-period Writing

Christine Kenyon-Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 248 pages
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 2001 - 1166 pages
...MASTERS. Dolphin. Cp. DAUPHIN. The dolphin is noted for its changes of colour when taken out of the water. Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang Imbues With a new colour as It gaaps away. The last still loveliest. liyrtm : Child, ПагоЫ, iv, 29. In mediaeval art, it symbolizes...
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