| 1824 - 56 pages
...attachment to Greece, whose fate he thus beautifully describes in one of his poems: — THE isles of Graece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Dulos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, Is set.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...with unmingled pleasure. * In our last number we were mistaken in ascribing this work to Mr Rose. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west, Than your sires ' Islands of the Blest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
| Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825 - 742 pages
...ourselves." "And may Heaven prosper the wish!" added Alexis. END OF THE INTRODUCTION. CHAP. V. The Isles of Greece! The Isles of Greece! Where burning...Phoebus 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, Have... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...In Italy, he'd ape the «Trecentisti;» In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this t' ye: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phrcbus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...peace, Where Delog rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, ia s arise, And the pale crescent sparkles in the glen. Through MI. in i acypresg-grove within each ia mute To Rounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest." The mountains look... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...o'ercanopied horizon fail'd, Her rushing wings; oh ! she who was Almighty hail'd ! SONG OP THE GREEK BAUD. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the hearts of war and peace — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus...found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blessed.' The... | |
| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...death's awful tract ! Without one selfish wish — to call them back. Anon. THE ISLES OF GREECE. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Sciau and the Teian muse, The heroe's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
| Christianity - 1828 - 622 pages
...sages afford the loftiest and purest models of all that is good and great in character : ' The islee of Greece ! The isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho...them yet — But all — except their sun — is set !* But, were this not the case, were Greece no object of delightful retrospection, the bare circumstance... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...too. To our country be as true as a lover, Till its green sod our ashes shall cover. ODE ON GREECE.— Byron. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where...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 Scian and the... | |
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