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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, Degenerate into hands like mine? "
Annual Report - Page 7
1894
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...in nations, — all were his ! He counted them at break of day And when the sun set where were they? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Eyron. LIX. O MARIS lonii crcbris freta consita terris ! Qua citharam Sapphus movit iniquus amor...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...Pitt— Burke. 2120 227 He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? — and where art thou, My country...lyre, so 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...
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...nations, — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Eyron. LIX. O MARIS Ionii crebris freta consita terris ! Qua citharam Sapphus movit iniquus amor...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day, — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...is tuneless now, — The heroic bosom beats no more ! 26 THE ISLES OF GREECE. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'T is...
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Contarini Fleming. Alroy. Romances

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846 - 1116 pages
...LONDON: HENRY COLRURN, PUBLISHER; LONDON; HARRISON AND CO., , 1 ] \ it;.-, IT. MiRTIN's I \\K. ALROY. * And where art thou, My Country ? On thy voiceless shore, The heroic lay is silent now ; The heroic bosom beats no more. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands...
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The Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 5

Freemasonry - 1846 - 406 pages
...the destitute ? What provisions for the needy, either in mind or body ? Alas, not one — not one : " The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more." I had a theme before me, in comparison with which the splendors of the boasted Parthenon were tame,...
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...lyre, so 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...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they 7 And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ' Tis some.hing in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race. To feel at least a patriot's...
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The Select Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...lyre, so long divine, 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...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...nations; all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they 1 And where are they ? and where art thou, My country...The heroic lay is tuneless now — The heroic bosom bents no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine 1 'Tis something,...
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