 Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!  The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 241by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But, gazing...tear-drop laves. To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I,...hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine: — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! LESSON... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But, gazing...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade, — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But, gazing...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 28 EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samiaii wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I...hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine I BYBOH... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But, gazing on each glpwing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and 1, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — 15 I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing...think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16. Place me on Suni urn's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ;... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...Lord Byron took the hint for the last stanza of his ode to the Greek isles: — Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs weep, — There, swan-like, let me sing and die. 4 Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,... | |
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