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 - Page 197edited by - 1801Full view - About this book
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...Tritonia's airy shrine adorns Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave ; " Save o'er some warriour's half forgotten grave, Where the gray stones and unmolested...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,... | |
| 1823 - 228 pages
...refuge in the contemplation of the natural beauties of the surrounding landscape : i Yet are thy «kies as blue ; thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves...his honied wealth Hymettus yields There the blithe hee his fragrant fortress builds The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air, Apollo still thy long... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...Oh ! who that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurotas' banks, and call thee from the tomb ? 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,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...illustrative of these reflections. Speaking of the fallen condition of Greece . — Yet are thy slyes 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 honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...Lingering like me, perehanoe, to gaze, and sigh "Alas!" LXXXV1I. Yet are thy skics as hlue, thy erags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy...Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honicd wealth Hymettus yiclds ; There the hlithe hee his fragrant fortress huilds, The freehorn wanderer... | |
| George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave ; Save o'er some warrior's half-forgotten grave, Where the grey stones and unmolested grass Ages, but not oblivion,...are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honey'd wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,... | |
| 1825 - 454 pages
...strongest recommendation borne on the hook. • '• PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION OF ATHENS. 167 *•- •* Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee hJs fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...strangers only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh « Alas!» 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,... | |
| 1825 - 778 pages
...thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic enrth, Bioke by the share of every rustic plough." " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Micerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress... | |
| 1825 - 780 pages
...surface bow, Commingling siowly with heroic earth, broke by the share of every rustic plough." " Vet 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 honeyed wealth Hymcttus yields ; There the... | |
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