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" Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their glorious black eyes shine; But gazing on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled... "
The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical notice by J. W. Lake - Page 185
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's uiarbled steep — Where nothing save the waves and I, May hear sur mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine 1 KKATS FROM " ISABEL ' FAIR Isabel, poor simple Isabel ! Lorenzo, a young palmer in love's eye ! They...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steepWhere nothing save the waves and I, May hear '.» r mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — KRATS FROM '• ISABEL FAIR Isabel, poor simple Isabel ! Lorenzo, a young palmer in love's eye...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! 1. Meaning of burnmg f 2. Explain the allusions to Delos and Phobia. 3. What place is alluded to...
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The New American Speaker: A Collection of Oratorical and Dramatical Pieces ...

John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I,...ne'er be mine : — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine 1 BTROH THE RAISING OF SAMUEL. " THOU, whose spell can raise the dead, Bid the prophet's form appear."...
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The Illustrated London Reading Book

English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...the burning tear drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves ! Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! BYRON. THE SIEGE OF ANTIOCH. AGHASIHAN, the Turkish Prince, or Emir of Antioch, had under his command...
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Specimens of Greek and Latin verse: chiefly translations

Charles Rann Kennedy - English poetry - 1853 - 168 pages
...the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! а fм-гat oveipara' ris yap àvrjp tpaiverai Tlarfiov каr eprjfíov o\ßios Srj ris' irepï S...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep. Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutnal murmurs sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing and...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! EBIN. From an old Irish newspaper, dated 1797. WHEN Erin first rose from the dark swelling flood...
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The practical elocutionist

Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! BYRON. THE LAST DAYS OF HERCULANEUM. EXTRACTED FROM A POEM OF THE SAME TITLE. THERE was a man, A...
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Selections from the writings of lord Byron, by a clergyman [W. Elwin].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I,...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! DON JUAN. EVENING. 125 EVENING. THE feast was over, the slaves gone, The dwarfs and dancing girls...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...Our virgins dance beneath the shade, — I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and...sing and die. A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine, — rDash down yon cup of Samian wine ! EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. — Wordaieorth. " WHY, William, on...
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