 Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. !$•' Fill high the bowl with...  Songs of Freedom - Page 42by Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 345 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English language - 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 - Greek drama - 1851 - 364 pages
...these lines that Lord 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." 1159. Tàf ïiçàts '¿TUS. SciIOL : ^i^oTt^vas... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - English poetry - 1853 - 168 pages
...cevp os evSaifjLcav, rrrpa/jrß>€<r<nv aryvaîs appr¡Tu>v те\етар acarov o\ßoSoreipav. 11 Fill high the bowl with Samian wine, Our virgins dance...such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 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...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, let... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 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... | |
 | American poetry - 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and 1 May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die • A land of slaves shall... | |
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