 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream' d that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could nut deem myself... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet; But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blessed." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...BC Who does not remember the burning lines of Byron in allusion to that said battle of Salamis ? " The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...all except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, flave found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute, To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' * Islands of the bless'd.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Tcian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...Delos rose, and Phœbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet ; But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks...Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born... | |
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The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 
