 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Simium's* marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There swan-like let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...not think of themes like these ; It made Anacreon's song divine : " Fill high the bowl with S ami an wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see...and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — — Dash down your cup of... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see...waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 15. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine 1 Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 308 pages
...from the trees, How welcome is each gentle air That wakes and wafts the odours there !" The Giaour. " Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing...waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing and die." Don Juan, canto iii. 7. • Twas oft my luck to dine, The grass my... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 pages
...from the trees, How welcome is each gentle air That wakes and wafts the odours there !" The Giaour. " Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing...waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing and die." Don Juan, canto iii. z Twas oft my luck to dine, The grass my table-cloth,... | |
 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pages
...from these lines 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 hear our mutual murmurs weep, — There, swan-like, let me sing and die. the captured slave, I speak. Truly hadst thou been... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 376 pages
...and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 15. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine I Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. i 16. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...Turkish force and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see...burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must nourish slaves. Place me on Sunium's marble steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, A land of... | |
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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! LXXXVH. 
