 | 1902 - 642 pages
...Salamis. Byron lit his torch at that hearth of freedom when he wrote his noble ' Isles of Greece : ' ' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. ' A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 pages
...In Greece, he'd sing some sort of hymn like this t'ye : The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. LXXXVI. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...In Greece, he'd sing some sort of hymn like this t'ye : The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, excejrt their sun, is set. The Scion and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...frown—where gentler ocean seems to smile. SONG OF A GREEK. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 refuse;... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...multitude, and of the inconstancy of fortune. THE ISLES OF GREECE. THE isles of Greee, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 refuse... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...of his poems : — THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and MMI.', Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos...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 refuse... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1825 - 504 pages
...number we were mistaken in ascribing this work to Mr Rose. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 refuse,... | |
 | Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825 - 742 pages
...the wish!" added Alexis. END OF THE INTRODUCTION. CHAP. V. The Isles of Greece! The Isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...Phoebus sprung! Eternal 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... | |
 | 1828 - 814 pages
...selfish wish — to call them back. Anon. THE ISLES OF GREECE. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Sciau and the Teian muse, The heroe's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...! she who was Almighty hail'd ! SONG OP THE GREEK BAUD. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 refuse... | |
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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... 
