 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 Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 238by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...o'ercanopied horizon fail'd, Her rushing wings; oh ! she who was Almighty hail'd ! SONG OP THE GREEK BAUD. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
 | 1828 - 622 pages
...sages afford the loftiest and purest models of all that is good and great in character : ' The islee of Greece ! The isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho...gilds them yet — But all — except their sun — is set !* But, were this not the case, were Greece no object of delightful retrospection, the bare circumstance... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...country be as true as a lover, Till its green sod our ashes shall cover. ODE ON GREECE.— Byron. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning...the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and Phrebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...breathes all the patriotic fire of old Greece, together with the most jovial Bacchanalian spirit: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the hearts of war and peace — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet ;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...old Goethe's — (see what says dc Stael) ; In Italy, he'd ape the " Trecentisti ;" In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this t' ye. The isles...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phrebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...hymn like thist'ye: The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece! Where bnrning Sappho loved and snng. Where grew the arts of war and peace— Where Delos rose, and Phoebns sprnng! Eternal snmmer gilds them yet, Bnt all. except their snn. is set. The Scian and the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...burning Sappho* lov'd and sung, Where grew the art* of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phrebus 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 musing there, an hour,... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...pillaged, and every age, sex, and rank, mingled in promiscuous massacre and ruin! THE ISLES OF GREECE. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...summer gilds them yet; But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...Italy he'd ape the " Trecentisti;'^1) In Greece, he'd sing some sort of hymn like this t'ye: 1. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2. The Scian(2) and the Teian muse,(3) The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...(Callimachus.) STANZAS FROM BYRON. " THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho lov'd and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, —...summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. " The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
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