 The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'  Songs of Freedom - Page 41by Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 345 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...unavenged ? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! S3. DEGENERACY OF GREECE. — Lord Ryron. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoobus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...Sigh'd for their sakes — that they should e'er grow older. DON JUAN. THE ISLES OF GREECE. 1. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phosbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. t, The Scian* and... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...yourself, however strongly they may affiV*n it, the eighth wonder of the world.'' LE SAGE. 98. The Isles of Greece. THE isles of Greece, the isles of...Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the art3 of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung \ Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...the Revolution, are still applicable. THE ISLES OF GREECE. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece 1 Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1854 - 244 pages
...will be prudent to escape it, besides giving a personal overhauling to your books., CHAPTER IX. ' The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the art of war and peace. — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But... | |
 | James Elishama Smith - History - 1854 - 670 pages
...began to perceive the decline of her attractions. The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! AYhere burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Deloa rose, and Phoebus sprung ! So sings Byron ; and young ladies exclaim, " How very beautiful !"... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...lovers* farewell, Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell. BYRON. LYRIC VERSFS The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and rang, Where grew the arts of war nnd peace — Where Delos rose, oud Phoebus sprung' Eternal summer... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...might be a secure resting-place for his beloved. Byron alludes to Delos in his Don Juan : — " The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning...war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! " Phaeton. CHAPTER V. PHAETON. PHAETON was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day a schoolfellow... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...the same word or words emphatically. 1. " Restore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 8. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is scl. — BYRON. O thou... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...the same word or words emphatically. 1. " Restore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 8. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set. — BYRON. 0 t lion... | |
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