| Marcius Willson - 1854 - 894 pages
...memory of departed friends, or the scenes of happy childhood— 14 sweet, but mournful, to the eoul." "Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy grove?, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still hifl honied... | |
| William O. Blake - 1855 - 1010 pages
...beauties, than its classic associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 632 pages
...turn, appear to have suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto IL of ,Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy skies 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... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 320 pages
...groves, and verdant are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of the mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beams... | |
| Samuel June Barrows - 1898 - 456 pages
...men, art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favorite now. 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 honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
| Samuel June Barrows - 1898 - 460 pages
...groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam... | |
| Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 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 honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
| George Willis Botsford - 1899 - 452 pages
...the supervision of the powers of Europe. Though two thousand years have wrought great changes, — 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,... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 pages
...sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe. ATTICA. BY LOED BYBON. (" Childe Harold," Canto II., 87, 88.) YET are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...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,... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 pages
...While strangers only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas I " 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 honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
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