 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...the dearth of fame, Though link'd within a fetter'd race ; To feel at least a patriot's shame, E'en as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, " But one arise, — we come, we come ! •' 'Tis but the living who are dumb." In vain — in vain... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...-the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled Earth ! render...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one, arise, — we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain, — in vain ;... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth, render...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one, arise — we come, we come ! " Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. r. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth !...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylse ! 8. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...Greeks a. blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush I — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy...but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent Etill ''. and silent nil 1 Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall,... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks, a blush, — for Greece, a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnint of our Spartan dead ! Of the tLrre hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must ice but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth I render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead I Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still ? and silent... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? * * * * * Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain ! —... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled Earth ! render...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one, arise, — we come, we come 1 ' 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain, — in vain ;... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth !...Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no j — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head,... | |
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Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae! 
