 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 ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no : the voices of the dead Sound like...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 53by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 480 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...Samian wine ! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet. Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. What! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...strike other chords; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! 11 Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! I "What, silent still? and silent all. Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But oue arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain— in vain : strike other... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...three hundred grant but three, f To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...living head, But one, arise, — we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain, — in vain ; strike other chords ; Fill high the cup... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent, still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Seio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ! and silent all 7 Ah, no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's...other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine 1 Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine 1 Hark ! rising to the ignoble... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae I 8. What, silent still ? and silent all . Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come I " 'T is but the living who are dumb. 9. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...Let one living head,— But one arise — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are, dumb. 353 In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Sainiau wine ! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1850 - 408 pages
...it a nonentity. The remembrance of the just is for ever. " What silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer that his day will come, 'Tis but the living who are dumb." Zeno, having inquired from the oracle to... | |
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