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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! "
Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron]. - Page 139
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...rose, and Phcebus 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,...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...
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Don Juan, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2. The Scian 2 and the Teian muse,3 The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the...look on Marathon * — And Marathon looks on the sea ; 1 [The poets of the fourteenth century — Dante, &c.] * [Homer.] 3 [Anacreon.] * The v*]9w fMtxetaw...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...sprung1 Eternal summer gilds them yet, I' ut all, except their sun, is set. Tlic Scian and the Teiun muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Thoir place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' 'Islands of...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Phoebus sprung' Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian mid the Teiun muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...echo further west Than your sires' 'Islands of the Ulest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there m hour...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...rose and Phoebus sprung !2 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,...looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's4 grave, I could not deem myself...
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The New American Speaker: A Collection of Oratorical and Dramatical Pieces ...

John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet ; But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself...
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Madam Dorrington of the Dene, Volume 605

William Howitt - 1851 - 1040 pages
...spirit — that of the poet of " Childe Harold" — has laid down his life in the cause of Greece. " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might vet be free." " ' You have quoted the words, Mr. Dorrington ; you have illustrated...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 38

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1851 - 626 pages
...roso üml I'm» вг** sprung; Eternal summer «¡Ids (hum yel, But all, except their sun, ¡a set. 'The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, And 111ЧЧ11 • there an hour atone, I deemed that (¡reece might still be free ; For, standing on the...
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A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient

Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 1852 - 510 pages
...antiquity, " Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. The Scian and the Teian Muse. The hero's harp, the lover's lute,...is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sire's islands of the blest." Never did bard sing more truly. Our boat is full of Greeks. I have just...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoabus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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