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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion - Page 170
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendour like the day, That like the day diffused itself, and still Blesses the earth — the light...God-like example. Echoes that have slept Since Athens, Lacedremon, were Themselves, Since men invoked 'By Those in Marathon!' Awake along the .(Egean ; and...
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...where once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendor like the day, That like the day diffused e slender acacia would not shake One long milk-bloom...pimpernel dozed on the lea ; But the rose w.as awake a Lacedseraon, were themselves, Since men invoked " By those iu Marathon !" Awake along the .Sgean ;...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 4

Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendour like the day, That like the day diffused itself, and still Blesses the earth — the light...virtue, Greatness in thought and act, contempt of death, GoJ-like example. Echoes that have slept Since Athens, Lacedsemon, were Themselves, Since men invoked...
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...where once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendor like the day, That like the day diffused All that approach with eye or hand These sacred cherries...nigh, Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry. ilobcrt Lacediemon, were themselves, Since men invoked " By those in Marathon !" Awake along the ^Egcan ; and...
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Wordsworth to Dobell ...

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendour like the day, That like the day diffused itself, and still Blesses the earth — the light...God-like example. Echoes that have slept Since Athens, Lacedasmon, were Themselves, Since men invoked ' By Those in Marathon !' Awake along the yEgean ; and...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splend ur like the day, That like the day diffused itself, and still Blesses the earth— the light of...genius, virtue, Greatness in thought and act, contempt ( f death, GoJ-like example. Echoes that have slept Since Athens, Lacedaemon, were Themselves, Since...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

1885 - 686 pages
...where once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendor like the day, That like the day diffused itself, and still Blesses the earth — • the light...invoked " By Those in Marathon ! " Awake along the yEgean; and the dead, They of that sacred shore, have heard the call, And thro' the ranks, from wing...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...where once it burnt so gloriously, And, dying, left a splendor like the day, That like the day diffused itself, and still Blesses the earth — the light...God-like example. Echoes that have slept Since Athens, Lacedxmon, were Themselves, Since men invoked " By Those in Marathon ! " Awake along the .-Egean; and...
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Rossetti. 2d ed., rev

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1888 - 698 pages
...thought and act, contempt cf der.lh, GoJ-like example. Echoes that have slept Since Athens, Lacedrcmon, were Themselves, Since men invoked 'By Those in Marathon!' Awake along the .fEgean ; and the dead, They of that sacred shore, have heard the call, And thro' the ranks, from wing...
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Italy: A Poem

Samuel Rogers - 1890 - 328 pages
...ATHENS, LACEDJEMON, were Themselves, Since men invoked "By those in MARATHON ! " Awake along the AEGEAN ; and the dead, They of that sacred shore, have heard the call, And through the ranks, from wing to wing, are seen Moving as once they were — instead of rage Breathing...
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