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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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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoobus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, rousing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persian's...
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The shower of pearls, a collection of poetry, original and selected, for ...

Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 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,...To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Island of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Seian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the, lover's...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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 - 1855 - 458 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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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : 278 LECTURE NINTH. "The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I thought that Greece might still be free ; 3?or standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux, with ...

P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Pkebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except th«ir sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be frotj For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...also vivifies them with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I thought that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...rose and Phosbus 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,...echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest."3 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour...
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The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises ...

Elocution - 1856 - 282 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 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 Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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