Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no : the voices of the dead Sound like... The works of ... lord Byron - Page 53by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1900 - 608 pages
...magnificent example of Byron's lyrical power in the ' Isles of Greece,' where the two lines, ' Ah, no ! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall,' drop suddenly into the elegiac strain, into a mournful echo that dwells upon the ear, followed by the... | |
 | 1821 - 676 pages
...three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thennopylte. What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head But once arise — we come, we come ! 'Tis but the living who are dumb." You will doubtless recollect that... | |
 | 1821 - 800 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! " What, silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, ConiiiiualttM oj i)un Juan, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb.... | |
 | 1821 - 778 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopybe ! « What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " 1л1 ont living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tu but the living who arc dumb. " In... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...make anew Thermopylae! What, silent still! andsilent all ' Ah ' no ;— the voices of the dead. Souud like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But оле arise— we come, wecome!" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain: strike other... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylso ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine f Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? , Ah ! no : — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But cue arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no;—the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise—we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain—in vain: strike other chords;... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;—the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, « Let one living head, But one arise,—we come, we come!» 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain—in vain: strike other chords;... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 824 pages
...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all '• Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, But one arise — we come, we come !' 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike... | |
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