 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pagine
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pagine
...life, save his limbs quivering. 289. THE ISLES OP GREECE. 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. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | Christopher Cooke - 1864 - 330 pagine
...the vicinity ; for now Byron's stanza seems more than ever applicable to this memorable plain : — 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. The Plain of Marathon is a wide, flat piece of land,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagine
...491. Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Canto il\. Stanza 86. v. 1. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free. Canto lli. Stanza 86. v. 3. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ?... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pagine
...its clasp, a glowing crescent, From THE SAME.—CANTO III. 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. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pagine
...splendid line is crowned with Deity. SONG OF A GEEEK. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Croly. Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse;... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pagine
...of Marathon, situated between a range of mountains on the one side, and the sea on the other : — The mountains look on Marathon, and Marathon looks...Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow which looks o'er sea-born... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pagine
...and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountain look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And...that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1867 - 236 pagine
...LXXXIX. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung : Where rose the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus...musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might yet be free : For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pagine
...referred to in the 4th stanza is Xcrxes, king of Persia. 1. 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 2. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute. Have found the fame your shores... | |
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The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... 
