| 1855 - 458 pages
...dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To fee*! ut least a patriot's shame, Even as 1 sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet...? 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... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered 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 blest ? Must we but blush ? Our father's... | |
| P. A. Fitzgerald - 1855 - 296 pages
...something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered rao% To feel at least a patriot's shamo. Even as I sing, suffuse my face; For what is left the poet here f For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a ten. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed f Must we but blush... | |
| 1856 - 282 pages
...ye he meant them for a slave ? '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 blessed? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth ! render back from... | |
| 1856 - 286 pages
...ye he meant them for a slave ? '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 blessed? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled ; Earth ! render back... | |
| 1867 - 288 pages
...meant them for a slave f Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered raea, To feel at least a patriot's shame. Even as I sing,...? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed f Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth ! render back... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...into hands like mine ? 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered rai», To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing,...face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a hlush — for Greece a tear. Must we hut weep o'er days more hlest ? Must we hut hlush ? — Our fathers... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 6. 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among the fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame,...poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth ! render... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 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... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine 7 "Pis something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. 1 Homer. * Anacreon. i These were supposed to have been the Cape de Verd Islands, or the Canaries.... | |
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