 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 981821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1856 - 268 pagina’s
...guards its darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warrior's tomb ! DEGENERACY OF GREECE. LORD BYRON. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856
...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...The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the lame your shores refuse Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds, which echo farther west Than... | |
 | 1856
...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 mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857
...and Phcehus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But Jill, except their sun, is set, 2. The 8cian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute,...found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 3.... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857
...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 Scian1 and the Teian* muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 432 pagina’s
...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 ! MODERN GREECE. 333 The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 448 pagina’s
...Sappho lov'd and sung, Where livM the arts of war and peace, Where *Delos rose and tPhoabus sprung I ^Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2. The Scian and Teian muse, The hero's heart, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse;... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858
...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...is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sire's " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And,... | |
 | lady Emelia Bithynia Hornby - 1858
...sides of the vessel. Herr S read enthusiastically, in broken English, Byron's fine stanzas : — " The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning...them yet ; But all except their sun is set !" The great truth and force of Byron's descriptions strike one very much on visiting places described by... | |
 | Isadora Duncan - 1995 - 255 pagina’s
...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. 86 In hiring the smack, Raymond had explained with much pantomime, and some ancient Greek that we wished... | |
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