 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...onward, mantled o'er with sober gray ; Nature in silence bid the world repose. The Hermit. T. PARNE1.U Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone — and all is gray. Childe Harold,... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - English literature - 1927 - 310 pages
...glows, Filled with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, 20 From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical...loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray. 1817. (e) Canto iv, CLXXIX-CLXXXIV: THE OCEAN ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten... | |
 | 1909 - 656 pages
...mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away — The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." Then twilight came, and nothing was left of the beautiful picture save a sweet memory which, though... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - History - 1991 - 422 pages
...to watch the sun setting across the Mediterranean, softly repeating to himself Byron's lines : — " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." ' In home-life he was a pattern of courtesy. His servants 1 Childe Harold, Canto IV., stanza xxix.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
