The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The works of ... lord Byron - Page 50by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung...place of birth alone is mute • To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blessed." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoabus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho lov'd and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung;...the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, flave found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute, To sounds which echo... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...human eye to note their luxuriance. Those grassy banks and hillocks, and desolated touns and hamlets, Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set : and Lochnaveen, with all its pastoral softness and romance, and wild grandeur, is to the stranger... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...of Pausanias is so clear and decisive as to leave no doubt of its being the tomb of the Athenians. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, H;4*ve found the fame your shores refuse ; Th'ñr pjacfí of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo... | |
 | Edinburgh tales - 1846 - 426 pages
...their VOL. 1П. luxuriance. Those grassy banks and hillocks, and desolated toune and hamlets, — " Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set: " and Lochnaveen, with all its pastoral softness and romance, and wild grandeur, is to the stranger... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1846 - 436 pages
...Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon, — And Marathon... | |
 | John Millen - 1846 - 134 pages
...eternal smile, Have had their prey, have rent the ties Of home-born, heart-link' d sympathies. 25. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 26. The golden palace of my God, Towering above... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung !...them yet ; But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed... | |
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