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" 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 a slave. "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 343
1824
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 196

1902 - 642 pages
...Salamis. Byron lit his torch at that hearth of freedom when he wrote his noble ' Isles of Greece : ' ' 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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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than...looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I drearu'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 9-10

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...muse, The hero's harp , the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than...looks on the sea> And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V.

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than...looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

England - 1821 - 778 pages
...muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blest.' " The mountain» look on .Marathon — And .Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I...
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The Babbler; or, Weekly literary and scientific intelligencer, Volume 1

1822 - 440 pages
...fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Ï han your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains...looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, w I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem...
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Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than...looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than...looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than...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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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'...looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself...
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