The Scian and the Teian 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 Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V. - Page 47by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don - 1977 - 772 pages
...They could not look more rosy than before. 2 The Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's harp, the brer's lute Have found the fame your shores refuse. Their...further west Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest'. 3 The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I... | |
| Barbara Jelavich - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...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'd dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...you see. OxBoLi 40 The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 41 e mind dreamed that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the..."Islands of the Blest". The mountains look on Marathon @ 本詩為長篇敘事詩( 唐, 磺) @ Don 丁uon @ 第三章 中片段。 @ 1 @ 莎孚@ 公元前610... | |
| George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...harp, the lover's Inte, Have found the fame your shares refuse : Their place of birth alone is mote To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'...on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea ; And TnlM"ng there an hour alone, I dreanVd that Greece might still be free For standing on the Persians'... | |
| Julius Rowan Raper, Melody L. Enscore, Paige Matthey Bynum - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 222 pages
...from the famous "isles of Greece" lyric that this local bard offers for the lovers' entertainment: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame. Though link'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 5 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2 The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the...lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse: 10 Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' 'Islands of... | |
| Muriel Spark - Fiction - 1963 - 148 pages
...conception of it, lovely frozen image that it was, but he presently slept with Selina on the roof. The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. Joanna needs to know more life, thought Nicholas,... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly "To gild refined gold, or paint the lily.' 1964 Don Juan good, Heroic womanhood. 6508 To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal dreamed that Greece might still be free. 1965 Don Juan ... That all-softening, overpowering knell,... | |
| William Peter Hamilton - Business & Economics - 1998 - 372 pages
...contractors who fed and clothed and armed the "five million men" in the army of the victorious Xerxes? "The mountains look on Marathon — and Marathon looks on the sea," and they may continue looking at each other, until the crack of doom, without telling us the cost of the... | |
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