 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pagina’s
...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...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. 1 Homer. * Anacreon. i These were supposed to have been the Cape de Verd Islands, or the Canaries.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pagina’s
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among the fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth ! render... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pagina’s
...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...? — For Greeks, a blush ! — for Greece, a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers BLED ! Earth ! render... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pagina’s
...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*; For what...here ? For Greeks, a blush', — for Greece, a tear*. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pagina’s
...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...here ? For Greeks, a blush, — for Greece, a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagina’s
...something in the dearth of fume., Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...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 bled. Earth, render back from... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pagina’s
...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 ; For what is left the poet here 1 For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pagina’s
...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 the poet here 2 For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pagina’s
...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...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth, render back... | |
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Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! 
