 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 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 uiarbled steep — Where nothing save the waves and I, May hear sur mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...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. 4 Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 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 — 15 I see their glorious black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samiau wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade I see their...black eyes shine ; But gazing on each glowing maid, My owu the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samiaii wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see...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,... | |
 | 1851 - 278 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...But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves ! Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where... | |
 | Sophocles - 1851 - 362 pages
...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." 1 1 59. 'là; ¡tçètt OTUS. ScilOL : {ÇiX/iTi-^yuï... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 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...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 13. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 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 see their glorious black eves shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep. Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 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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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! 
