 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 1 What, silent still?  Poetry of Byron: Chosen and Arranged - Page 66by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh Taylor Howat - 1868 - 328 pages
...the knee to Baal.' A modern poet represents Greece, but not the Greece of former days, exclaiming : ' Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae.' The prayer is unneeded in this greater contest ; for the armies of God are to be known by their increase,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...a tenr. Must ti'e but weep o'er days more blest? Must T« but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth 1 ts tlint destroy 1 Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae I "What, silent still? and silent... | |
 | United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division - 1953 - 100 pages
...£ E AN Greet soldiers serve in NA TO and with UN forces in Korea. 46 THE GREEK SOLDIER AND HIS ARMY "Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae." — Lord Byron The Greek soldier fought with United Nations forces in Korea. From 1946 until Korea... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1977 - 772 pages
...as I sing, suffuse my face. For what is left the poet here? For Greeks a blush, for Greece a tear. 7 Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! 8 What, silent still? And silent all? Ah no! The voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent' s... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1994 - 836 pages
...ferryman of the Underworld, who ferried the shades of the dead across its river. 7 New Thermopylae: 'Earth! render back from out thy breast/ A remnant...hundred grant but three, / To make a new Thermopylae.' Byron, Don Juan, stanza 86. Thermopylae was the site of heroic Spartan resistance to the Persian invasion... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. 7. Must ice bat weep o'er days more blest ? Must ice Z= I Of the three hundred grant bnt three, To make a new Thermopybe t 8. What, silent still? and silent... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...sing, suffuse my face; 35 For what is left the poet here? For Greeks a blush - for Greece a tear. 7 Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but...fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast 40 A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae!... | |
 | Catherine Coulter - 1998 - 420 pages
...poetry, I understand." "As am I, my lord," Clare assured him. "Have you read this passage, my lord?" Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! Hawk didn't know whether to applaud or bow his head. He was spared doing neither. "I should like to... | |
 | Brigitte Glaser - 2001 - 678 pages
...der die Seele weit ward bei den Namen Marathon und Plätää, sie alle sangen jetzt mit dem Dichter: Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae! Und war er nicht erschienen, der Tag der neuen Thermophylen, als Diakos mit seinem kleinen Haufen abermals... | |
 | David Roessel - 2001 - 416 pages
...the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave . . . Must we weep o'er days more blest? Must we blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! Render back from...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! (CPWV, pp. 189-90) He deemed, being on a lone isle, among friends, That without any danger of a riot,... | |
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