 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine 1 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - 1853 - 182 pages
...ßorpvcDV екe1 yavos, á\iw Хриcroм yeveff\ov, "Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? a. 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. r. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? T is something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled Earth ! render back from... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine? Tis something in the dearth of fame. Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine i 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...? For Greeks a. blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush I — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...the dearth of fame, Though link'd within a fetter'd race ; To feel at least a patriot's shame, E'en as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the...Greeks — a blush ; for Greece — a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...ye be meant them for a slave ? T is something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse mv fane i . For what rs*leTt the poet here ? For Greeks, a blush, — for Greece, a tear ! Must we... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter"d race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as 1 sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear.... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'T is something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race. To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from... | |
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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! 
