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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! "
Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron]. - Page 139
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823
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Selections from the writings of lord Byron, by a clergyman [W. Elwin].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. t, The Scian* and the Teian muse,t The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the...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,...
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Elements of Physical and Classical Geography

James Pillans - Classical geography - 1854 - 292 pages
...have furnished an English word descriptive of a <» The Scian and the Teian muse, (Homer and Anacreon) The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the...further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blest.' (»»«i /«*«{*») A.fftu ft vrgext&tfcovruv, fff&etgtiyu Vi ft XztftMv. — lLTAD,B.459. Sic niger,...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...rose, and 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,...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...rose and 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,...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon, — And Marathon...
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The practical elocutionist

Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...rose and 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,...place of birth alone is mute, To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the blest." The mountains look on Marathon—- And Marathon...
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Morbida, or, Passion past, and other poems, from the Cymric and other sources

Morbida - 1854 - 196 pages
...heaven and of love, thou shalt beam "With the light of her look, who shall then be no dream — « " The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free." (See Col. Squire on the Valley of Marathon, paper in " Walpole's Memoirs.") Unlike Tier, the meteor...
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Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, the ...

John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...tomb of the 192 Athenians who fell in the battle. No monument marks the graves of the Persian dead. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...on the sea; — And musing there an hour alone, I drcam'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave. 1 could not deem myself...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia

Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 418 pages
...completely hemmed in on all sides by mountains, except the ocean side, and beautifully cultivated. " 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...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia

Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...completely hemmed in on all sides by mountains, except the ocean side, and beautifully cultivated. " The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour,alone, ' I dreamed th^it Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could...
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A Buckeye Abroad: Or, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient

Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 1854 - 460 pages
...antiquity, " Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. The Scian and the Teian Muse. , , The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the feme your shores refuse ; • • "** Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further...
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