...The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 4 THE MEDITERRANEAN Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos...summer gilds them yet; But all except their sun is set. Thus opens Lord Byron's Song of the Greek Poet. It was one of the products of his patriotic missionary...

...But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly "To gild refined gold, or paint the lily.' 1964 Don Juan good, Heroic womanhood. 6508 To say the least, a town...liberal in one's judgement of others. If we could 1965 Don Juan ... That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell....

...2004. Few will accept the view expressed by Byron in 1819: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Most will accept the view expressed by Shelley in 1822: Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter...

...III (1820), which became the single most important philhellenic text, particularly stanzas 3 and 7: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave . . . Must we weep o'er days more blest? Must we blush?...

...aptly describes it in his famous poem which opens with : "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set," ATHENS The Acropolis, or rocky mountain on which the celebrated group of buildings is found, was fortified...