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" 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 41
by Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 345 pages
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The Lost Daughter: And Other Stories of the Heart

Caroline Lee Hentz - 1857 - 336 pages
...wishes you could go to Europe with us. How would you like to travel on classic ground, to see the ' Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung?' " The colour on Bessy's cheeks deepened to crimson. " Oh ! brother, can I go ? Is Mr. Selwyn serious...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1857 - 588 pages
...daring for love of country, than the one put in the mouth of the Greek, and beginning thus ? — " The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and snng." "What words of inspiration to despairing patriots, who, baffled in their attempts to win independence...
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In and around Stamboul, Volume 1

lady Emelia Bithynia Hornby - 1858 - 344 pages
...sides of the vessel. Herr S read enthusiastically, in broken English, Byron's fine stanzas : — " The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phrebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet ; But all except their sun is set !" The great truth...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...same word or words emphatically. 1. " Kestore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 2. , The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phrebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set.— BTOON. EROTESIS...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - Recitations - 1858 - 450 pages
...of my glory and my pain, — Farewell, unfathomable main ! MISS JBWSBUBY (aUtrcd). XXXIV. —MODERN GREECE. THE isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece...loved and sung ; Where grew the arts of war and peace ; The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores...
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The Bible in the Levant: Or, The Life and Letters of the Rev ..., Volume 46570

Samuel Irenĉus Prime, Chester Newell Righter - Bible - 1859 - 342 pages
...Homer begged his bread.' 11 Then come Nikaros and Samos, just beyond, and now we sail among " ' The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...and Phoebus sprung, Eternal summer gilds them yet, And all except their sun is set.' Here is Tinos and Delos, Coos, Naxos and Paros, all famed in classic...
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The Bible in the Levant: Or, The Life and Letters of the Rev ..., Volume 46570

Samuel Irenĉus Prime, Chester Newell Righter - Bible - 1859 - 280 pages
...Homer begg'd his bread.' " Then come Nikaros and Samos, just beyond, and now we sail among " ' The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...and Phoebus sprung, Eternal summer gilds them yet, And all except their sun is set' Here is Tinos and Delos, Coos, Naxos and Paros, all famed in classic...
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Poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...remains upon a rock, while the ark floats towards him in the distance. EXTEACTS FKOM DON JUAN. THE ISLES OF GREECE.* THE isles of Greece, the isles of...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...
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At Heaven's Gate

Robert Penn Warren - Fiction - 1985 - 404 pages
...old man's native Aegean. There's something about blue water and islands! Blue and with sunshine. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and sung, whence sprang the arts of war and peace, and little burning Billie sprung!— But Martinique— Emil—...
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The Birth of a Grandfather

May Sarton - Fiction - 1989 - 292 pages
...himself like a dog and raised his head, turning toward Joe, with a mischievous smile, and recited: "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece Where burning...arts of war and peace Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprungl Eternal summer gilds them yet But all, except their sun, is set" "Lucky man, you've kept your...
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