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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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The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1854 - 426 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 steepWhere nothing save the waves and I, May hear jur mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,...
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Selections from the writings of lord Byron, by a clergyman [W. Elwin].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. IS. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...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...
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Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, the ...

John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 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 staves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

1854 - 456 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...the shade, — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...mother's bore ; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own. * * * » * 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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The shower of pearls, a collection of poetry, original and selected, for ...

Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...hopes of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ; Our virgins...the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,— Where nothing, save the waves and I May hear our mutal murmurs...
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

1855 - 458 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...the shade,— I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual...
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The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith

Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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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Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 16. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...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...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...Another "''despot of the kind 1 Such chains as his were sure to bind. 12. Fill high the bowl with Saurian wine! Our virgins dance beneath the shade; I see their...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...
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