 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something in the dearth of fume., 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... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now; 6. '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*. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...ye he 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...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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...started wild And fled disorder'd." — -iEscmru;a. 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here 1 For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...must thy lyre, so long divine, 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here 2 For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 480 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 poet here ? For Greeks—a blush ; for Greece—a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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...? "For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er d«ys more blest 1 Must we but blush 1 — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine? 6. 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. t. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 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 blessed ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the Three Hundred grant... | |
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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! 
