 And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?  On the Structure of English Verse - Page 97by Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships by thousands lay below. And men in nations, — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Eyron. LIX. O MARIS Ionii crebris freta consita terris ! Qua citharam Sapphus movit iniquus amor... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! * Fox— Pitt— Burke. 2120 227 He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day, — And when the...is tuneless now, — The heroic bosom beats no more ! 26 THE ISLES OF GREECE. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'T is... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 416 pages
...remember having heard of his name ; and as for the fashionable publishers that besieged his doors, " He counted them at break of day ; And when the sun set, where were they 1 " It could not be much more than a twelvemonth or so from the day on which we met him cantering,... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...Which lookso'ersea-bornSalamis; And ships by thousands lay below. And men in nations, — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set where were they? Anthol. Oxon. p. 100. INSI I..K IN Plurima in JEgeo nitet insula plurima Grsecia erat somnis libera... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846 - 1116 pages
...LONDON: HENRY COLRURN, PUBLISHER; LONDON; HARRISON AND CO., , 1 ] \ it;.-, IT. MiRTIN's I \\K. ALROY. * And where art thou, My Country ? On thy voiceless shore, The heroic lay is silent now ; The heroic bosom beats no more. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands... | |
 | 1846 - 406 pages
...the destitute ? What provisions for the needy, either in mind or body ? Alas, not one — not one : " The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more." I had a theme before me, in comparison with which the splendors of the boasted Parthenon were tame,... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...sea-born Salamis , And ships, which by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1848 - 488 pages
...looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations : — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ?" /. »taï тгроо-eßaXtro .... тгпОечч. After the words фьЛос co>v, must be understood... | |
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