 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 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...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 ice but blush ?—Our fathers... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 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...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 fathers... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? THE SAME CONTINUED. "Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...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 fathers... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 pages
...whatever is, is right.' (28) ' 'Tis 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 my face ; For what is left a poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...started wild And fled dlsorder'd." — JSsCRYLUS. "Pis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face j For what is left the poet here ! Fur Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...of fame, Thf.'u<rh linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I finp, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. "Most we but weep o'er days more blest » Must MM but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth, render back... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...so long divine. Degenerate into hands like mine? Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd rapine wildly reign, To darken o'er the fair domain....they nssail'd. And, fix'd on heavenly thrones, sh tenr. Must ti'e but weep o'er days more blest? Must T« but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth 1 render... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...into the mouth of a native bard : — " 'Tis something iu the dearth of fame. Though link'd among the fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame,...? 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... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 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...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... | |
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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! 
