...of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace. Where Délos Artemus Ward: His Trave/s, "In Canada" (1865). 4 We are constantly thinking of the great wa LORD BYRON (1788-1824). English poel. Don luán, cío. 3, sí. 86. verse 1 . 4 Out of all those centuries...

...of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos = Y= Inte, Have found the fame your shares refuse : Their place of birth alone is mote To sounds which echo...

...in that land, wrote: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where grew the arts of war and peace; Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, made this solemn prediction: Greece will be strong and a match...

...Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 5 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2 The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores...

...of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÓTH BARON BYRON, (1788-1824) British poet. Donjuán, cto. 3, St. 86, verse...

...isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 4 THE MEDITERRANEAN 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. Thus opens Lord Byron's Song of the Greek Poet. It was one of the products of his patriotic missionary...

...of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. -Byron, Don Juan, iii ues I: linger, dwell; parts of the verb to be. Skr bustee: village slum. Gk Hestia,...

...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. Most will accept the view expressed by Shelley in 1822: Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter...

...European context of 1787-1824. The ballad plays itself out as a contest between the rival claims of "The Scian and the Teian muse, / The hero's harp, the lover's lute" (2, 1 - 2). Representing a poetical career and its goals as a dialectic between the shifting claims...

...grave stele from the classical period was the prize exhibit: a husband's solemn farewell to his seated sprung, Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. — Lord Byron, "The Isles of Greece" wife, made in a time before mourners found consolation in dreams...