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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! "
Specimens of Greek and Latin verse: chiefly translations - Page 12
by Charles Rann Kennedy - 1853 - 154 pages
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Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae

William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 pages
...the mass of carcasses below, after having sung a melancholy dirge:— Place me on Griffon's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, pig-like, let me grunt and die, The last of hip-po-po-ta-mi. Thoughts on Naval Tactics. — My friend...
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Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae

William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 370 pages
...the mass of carcasses below, after having sung a melancholy dirge : — Place me on Griffon's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, pig-like, let me grunt and die, The last of hip-po-po-ta-mi. Thoughts on Naval Tactics. — My friend...
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Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Volume 12

1876 - 434 pages
...unter Anderem Folgendes sagt: Our virgins dance beiicatlt the shade — l See their glorious l>lack eyes shine; But gazing on each glowing maid My own...laves, To think, such breasts must suckle slaves. Mein Werk ist schon vor einem Jahre verfasst worden; jetzt aber bereite ich ein Gedicht auf Lord Byron...
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Don Juan

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 pages
...of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 15. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shiue ; But gazing; on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts...
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The Standard poetry book, selected from the best authors

Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...hope of courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, A . Would break your shield, however Woad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance...such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep— Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,...
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Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Book 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...the present hour would lend Another +despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. 12. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance...burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must pillow slaves. 13. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear...
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Harper's Hand-book for Travellers in Europe and the East

William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...hope of courage dwells : But 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 r-'rit their glorious black eyes shine ; But, gazing on each glowing maid. My own the burning teiir-drop...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, complete. (Pearl ed.).

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 738 pages
...of courage dwells : Hut Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 15. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the sii;i'Se — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Dut gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 42 ould drown the stage with tears And cleave the general...speech, Make mad the guilty and appall the free, AWP; ChTr; FaPoR; FiP: LiTB; NOBE; OBEY; OBTV 43 When over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait...
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