 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
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1854 - 248 pages
...isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the art of war and peace. — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung...them yet, But all, except their sun, is set., THE JEouAN SEA ! Loveliest of all waters, its bright surface almost seems conscious that it laves classic... | |
 | Rev. H. Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., - 1854 - 262 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! Eternal...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. n. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1854 - 804 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 ! Eternal...summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set."-h The Turkish pachas never set their feet in these blessed abodes of industry and freedom. Secretly... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1854 - 460 pages
...classical antiquity, " Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. The Scian and the Teian Muse. , , The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the feme your shores refuse ; • • "** Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoobus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, rousing there an hour alone, I dreamed... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phosbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. t, The Scian* and the Teian muse,t The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 530 pages
...every stone breathes an epic, every running brook gurgles a poem, every mound unearths a sculptor, " Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set." It was in Greece that all means adapted to develop the body, and to train the mind to warlike enterprise,... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 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!...To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Island of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 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 Frost - 1855 - 462 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...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Seian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the, lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
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