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" Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! "
Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes - Page 382
by Sophocles - 1833
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Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er bo mine — Dash down...
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The poetical works of lord Byron. Repr. with notes, &c, Issue 35

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. her words"; she was his sight, For his eye follow'd hers, and saw with hers, Which colour'd sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing ami die I A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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The New York Speaker

Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 pages
...king who buys and sells — But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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A Practical Grammar of the English Language

Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - English language - 1878 - 268 pages
...have kept his spirit to that flight, he had been happy." — Byron. 21. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. — Byron. TENSE. 1O1. DEFINITION. 1. Tense denotes the...
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The Nilometer and the Sacred Soil: A Diary of a Tour Through Egypt ...

Kate Kraft - Egypt - 1869 - 352 pages
...each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. " Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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The book of poetry for schools and families [ed.] by W. Davis

William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 16

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 15-16

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of ...

Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. 9. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down...
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Treasury of choice quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Canto iii. Stan2a 86. v. 10. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, J May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. Canto iii. Stan2a 86....
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