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" In vain the turban'd tyrant rears his halls, And plants the symbol of his faith and slaughters, — Now, even now, the beam of promise falls Bright upon Hellas, as her own bright daughters, And a Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! Thou art not silent... "
The Poetical Sketch-book: Including a Third Edition of Australia - Page 15
by Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1829 - 286 pages
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The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1829 - 468 pages
...vocal, — and, along thine ivied walls, "While Elian echoes murmur on the blast, And wild- flowers hang, like victor-coronals, In vain the turbaned tyrant...And hoots the prophet owl, amid his tangled bowers ! TEMPLE OP JUPITER OLYMPICS. And, round thine altar's mouldering stones are born Mysterious harpings,...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 2

Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...a Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! Thou art not silent! — when the southern fair, Ionia's moon, looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl, amid his tangled bowers! • Tbc temple of Jupiter Olympiu*, at Athens, was commenced...
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The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 2

Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...a Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! Thou art not silent! — when the southern fair, Ionia's moon, looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl, amid his tangled bowers ! * The temple of Jupiter Olympius, at Athens, was commenced by...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Xixth Century

Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! Thou art not silent ! — when the southern fair, Ionia's moon ", looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl, amid his tangled bowers! And round thine altar's mouldering stones are born Mysterious...
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Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

William Brockedon - Europe - 1833 - 438 pages
...Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! " Thou art not silent! when the southern fair — Ionia's moon — looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl amid his tangled bowers. " And round thine altar's mouldering stones are born Mysterious...
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Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

William Brockedon - Europe - 1833 - 462 pages
...Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! " Thou art not silent ! when the southern fair — Ionia's moon — looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl amid his tangled bowers. " And round thine altar's mouldering stones are born Mysterious...
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The Harp of the Wilderness; Or, Flowers of Modern Fugitive Poetry ...

Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...a Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters. Thou art not silent ! — when the southern fair, Ionia's moon, looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl, amid his tangled bowers ! And round thine altar's mouldering stones are borne Mysterious...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! Thou art not silent ! — when the southern fair, Ionia's moon*, looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...lay— half hope, half sorrow— from the flowers, And limits the prophet-owl, amid his tangled bowers ! And round thine altar's mouldering stones are born...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...a Greek Ararat is rising o'er the waters ! Thou art not silent !— when the southern fair, Ionia's moon*, looks down upon thy breast, Smiling, as pity...minstrel of the moonlight hours, Breathes, like some lone oue sighing to be blest, Her lay— half hope, half sorrow — from the flowers, And hoots the prophet-owl,...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...art not silent ! when the southern fair — Ionia's moon — looks down upon thy breast. Smiling, sa pity smiles above despair, Soft as young beauty soothing...weedy crest, And she, the minstrel of the moonlight houra Breathes — like some lone one, sighing to be blest — Her lay, half hope, half sorrow, from...
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