Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth... Poems - Page 549by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 719 pagesFull view - About this book
| 700 pages
...shrine adorns Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave; Save o'er some warrior's half forgotten grave; Where the gray stones and unmolested grass Ages, but...Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine... | |
| 1813 - 706 pages
...shrine adorns Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave; Save o'er some warrior's half forgotten grave; Where the gray stones and unmolested grass Ages, but...Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...brave, While strangers only not regardless pass. Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
| 1812 - 1020 pages
...Co'omm's cliir, and gleams along the wave ; Save o'or some warrior's half-forgotten grave, Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages, but not oblivion,...pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alae!" Yet arc thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are .thy tk-'-b,... | |
| 1825 - 776 pages
...thy surface bow, Comminglmg slowly with heroic earth, Bioke by the share of every rustic plough." " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild. Sweet...Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds. The frce-bom wanderer... | |
| 1811 - 600 pages
...touching exposition of the degraded and hopeless state of modern Greece, Lord Byron proceeds-— ' Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd ; And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
| 1811 - 546 pages
...touching exposition of the degraded and hopeless state of modern Greece, Lord Byron proceeds — ' Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd ; And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 pages
...Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, ftecal its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? LXX1X. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, . And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; * * Phylerwhich commands a beautiful view of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - 314 pages
...Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave ; Save o'er some warrior's half-forgotten grave, Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages, but not oblivion,...Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" LXXIX. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 510 pages
...Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recal its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? LXXIX. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; * ' Plivle, which commands a beautiful view of... | |
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