 | 1828 - 622 pages
...purest models of all that is good and great in character : ' The islee of Greece ! The isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...burning Sappho* lov'd and sung, Where grew the art* of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phrebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...looks on the sea : And musing there, an hour, alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be fire* For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...mingled in promiscuous massacre and ruin! THE ISLES OF GREECE. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 found the fame your shores refuse;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...In Greece, he'd sing some sort of hymn like this t'ye: 1. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 fame your... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...(Callimachus.) STANZAS FROM BYRON. " THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho lov'd and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, —...them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. " The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...famous victory." CXXXIX. THE ISLES or GREECE.—Byron. The Isles of Greece ! the Isles of Greece 1 Where burning Sappho loved and sung,— Where grew...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 found the fame your shores refuse;... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...odours from his dewy wings. THE ISLES OF GREECE.— Byron. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...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 found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...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 looks...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 men... | |
 | 1840 - 528 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...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... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phœbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...that Greece might still be free : For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born... | |
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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! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... 
