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" Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied... "
The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool - Page 195
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The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...— or, as Lord Byron has amplified this thought ' in one of his most splendid passages : — " Vet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yield« ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress...
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Key to Pelton's Hemispheres: Designed as an Introduction to the Key to His ...

Cale Pelton - 1851 - 236 pages
...classical associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. ** Yet are tby skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves,...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettusf yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 13

1851 - 724 pages
...strikingly exhibited by two passages. The inspired pilgrim writes : — "Yet are thy skies as bine, thy crags as wild. Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fielda ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And «till hi-ч honeyed wealth H 3'tnettus yields....
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The Works of Lord Byron: In Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...strangers only not regardless pass, Г iogering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alts.1 LXXXTII. iis most unearthly mood, Whrn each conception was a heavenly guest smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee hi« fragrant fortress build*,...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 pages
...regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blne, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettns yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress bnilds,...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 pages
...suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto II. of Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy sides as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled, And all his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee...
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Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, the ...

John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...shrine adorns Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave ; Save o'er some warrior's half-forgotten grave, Where the gray stones and unmolested grass...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...feebly brave, While strangers only not regardless pass, ingering like me, perchance, to gase, ana righ > b x I o6e)t3g X8^ jE4 i]s n/pOnPnQnRn w/i ti[fk HTe `CxDxExFx t:x x x q w 3 lKx.x * l-t9x#^"n w)x q w) smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...
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History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the ..., Volume 3

Archibald Alison - 1854 - 804 pages
...fraught with such recollections thrilled like the sound of a trumpet through the heart of Europe ? " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...any effectual resistance. CVlMjrma. is no less a resort of painters than of pirates ; there LXXXVII. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...
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