 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 480 pagina’s
...the dearth of fame, Though link'd within a fetter'd race ; To feel at least a patriot's shame, E'en as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks—a blush ; for Greece—a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pagina’s
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? "Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er d«ys more blest 1 Must we but blush 1 — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pagina’s
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pagina’s
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine? 6. Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...poet here? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. t. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pagina’s
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the Three Hundred grant... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pagina’s
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...face; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must ice but blush ?—Our fathers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pagina’s
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...face; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?—Our fathers... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pagina’s
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? THE SAME CONTINUED. "Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...face; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?—Our fathers... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 pagina’s
...whatever is, is right.' (28) ' 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left a poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pagina’s
...started wild And fled dlsorder'd." — JSsCRYLUS. "Pis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face j For what is left the poet here ! Fur Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er... | |
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And where are they ? And where art thou ? My Country ! On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more. And must thy lyre, so long divine... 
