 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...Turkish force , and Latin fraud, Would break your shield , however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samiam wine! Our virgins dance beneath the shade I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing on'each glowing maid, My own the burning tear - drop laves, To think such breats must suckle slave.... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would hreak your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine, Our virgins dance beneath the shade — > I «ee their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop... | |
 | Sophocles - 1823 - 228 pages
...from these Hues that 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 bear our mutual murmurs weep,— There, swan-like, let me siug and die." " " Shamest thou not, knowing... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and 1 May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shields, however broad. • • Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, Ky own the burning tear drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Wou.d break your shields, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine : Our virgins...the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Ijui gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must... | |
 | 1824 - 56 pages
...shields, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Onr virgins dance beneath the shade ; 1 see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear drop laves, To think such breasts muni suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marble staep, — Where... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...hope of courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, \Vould break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance...think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Suninm's marbled steep— • Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...Turkish force, and Latin fraud. Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high Hie bowl with Samiau wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes slrine ; But, gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...hope of courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, bowever broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop lave«, To think each breasts must euckle ilavci Place me on Sunium's marbled eteep — Where nothing,... | |
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Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. !$•' Fill high the bowl with... 
