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" 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 238
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...harpy. 39 Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see. OxBoLi 40 The rein I'll catch the conscience of the King. (II, ii) NAWM-I 33 O, what a 41 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone,...
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英美名詩一百首

1993 - 412 pages
...歡迎呵, 岩窟@ 我的故鄉永別T @ 係梁譯 52 The Isles of Greece G 切r 辟G 付do 冗B 打on 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...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...that it might be a secure resting-place for his beloved. Byron alludes to Delos in his Don Juan: The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where burning...arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprang! CHAPTER 5 Phaeton Phaeton was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day a schoolfellow...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...that were. LORD BYRON (1 788-1 824), English poet. Chitde Harold's Pilgrimage, clo. 2, st. 2. 3 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...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....
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...Staël); In Italy he 'd ape the " Trecentist! ; " In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this V 2Z= 2Z= 2Z= Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set...
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Ancient Greek Music

M. L. West - 1992 - 452 pages
...that all or almost all Sappho's poems 'were recited by herself informally to her companions'.1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and recited'? In that generally admirable volume The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) we look...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, X The Isles of Greece 1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...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,...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...NEW TESTAMENT, St. Paul, in Titus, 1:12. Cited by Paul, this remark is attributed to Epimenides. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...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....
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Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission

Ellen Greene - 1996 - 276 pages
...attitude to it is hostile. 87. Cf. Kirkwood, Early Creek Monody 148-49. Byron's famous lines, "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung" (Donjuán 3.86.1), supplied the title for West's important article. TWO Sappho's Afterlife in Translation...
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THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITS BORDERLANDS

JOEL COOK - 1910 - 756 pages
...aettos—Pentelikon—-Pikermi—Marathon—JEgina—The Oros—Laurion— Sunion—Cape Colonna. THE IONIAN ISLES. The isles of Greece, the 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...
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