 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
 | Ludwig Schajowicz - Drama - 1990 - 400 pages
...pensar del pensador por la vía recta. CAPITULO IV LA BÚSQUEDA DE LO SAGRADO A Manfred Kerkhoff The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts ofwar and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, excep1... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...Illustrative. Byron's allusion to Delos in Don Juan, 3, 86 : The isles of Greece I the isles of Greece I Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the...war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung 1 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. See Milton's Sonnet, " I did but... | |
 | Sheldon Brivic - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 228 pages
...Annotations 75, points out that FW 75.9-10 parodies the well-known lines from Byron's Don Juan, "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!/ Where burning Sappho loved and sung!" The song about Greece appears between stanzas 86 and 87 of Canto III. Because the pages of McHugh's... | |
 | Robert Eisner - History - 1991 - 340 pages
...girls, and a poet who sings a Philhellenic hymn full of history no Greek poet of the day would know. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung . . . (3.86.1) But alas! Lambro, the errant father, has not died. He has returned secretly (far-seeing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...harpy. 39 Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see. OxBoLi 40 The rein I'll catch the conscience of the King. (II, ii) NAWM-I 33 O, what a 41 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...that it 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...arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprang! CHAPTER 5 Phaeton Phaeton was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day a schoolfellow... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...that were. LORD BYRON (1 788-1 824), English poet. Chitde Harold's Pilgrimage, clo. 2, st. 2. 3 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace. Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...In Italy he 'd ape the " Trecentist! ; " In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this V ye: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set... | |
 | M. L. West - History - 1992 - 452 pages
...that all or almost all Sappho's poems 'were recited by herself informally to her companions'.1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and recited'? In that generally admirable volume The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) we look... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, X The Isles of Greece 1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 5 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2 The Scian and the Teian muse,... | |
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