 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 a slave.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1101821Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...means. Sleep well, avenged young duke, and fair boy-long, 194 AN HISTORIC BATTLE-GROUND. The mount ;u us look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might yet be free. DON JUAN. The breakfast party at the Hdtel d'Angleterre, of... | |
 | Hyde Clarke - English language - 1853 - 180 pages
...is umte To sounds, which echo further west, Than your sires' islands of the bfest. " The mountains look on Marathon, And .Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour aZone, I dreamed that Greece may still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...mountains look on Marathon—- And Marathon looks on the sea ; Musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow, Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis : And ships, by thousands, lay below, And... | |
 | Morbida - 1854 - 196 pages
...love, thou shalt beam "With the light of her look, who shall then be no dream — « " The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free." (See Col. Squire on the Valley of Marathon, paper in " Walpole's... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamt that Greece di'.g.it still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be fre* For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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... | |
 | Rev. H. Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., - 1854 - 262 pages
...is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest." in. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 1 3. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
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