 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...marbled steep, Where nothing, save the wares and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-lute, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wise ! LXXXVH. Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable тепе... | |
 | Alfred Noe - European literature - 1994 - 248 pages
...otherwise Haroldian The Isles of Greece, inserted in Canto III of Don Juan (1818): Place me by Sunium's marbled steep Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-tike, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall never be mine Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...own the burning tear-drop laves, 90 To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I,...murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: 95 A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! Francesco. of Rimini From... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...Above all, there was the young Lord Byron dreaming about The Isles of Greece': Place me on Sunium's marbled steep Where nothing save the waves and I May...mutual murmurs sweep. There, swan-like, let me sing and die.The Romantics wrote on Greece with beguiling genius; and it is not surprising that they can 'tease... | |
 | Anita Desai - Fiction - 2000 - 196 pages
...aloud to her from Byron: 'Place me on Sunium 's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and 1, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep: There, swan-like,...land of slaves shall ne'er be mine: Dash down yon cup ofSamian wine.' and tell her the story of Byron's fight for Greek independence and his death in Greece... | |
 | Richard R. Bozorth - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 362 pages
...Jerome McGaiin has argued, Byron's own "forms of ideological backsliding and dishonesty" (Beauty 279). "Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, / The modern Greek, in tolerable verse," Byron comments of the ballad's singer: His strain display'd some feeling— right or wrong; And feeling,... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...is also the option toward which "The Isles of Greece" makes its final gesture. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I,...A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down you cup of Samian wine. (16) As in the later lyric, when the poet here chooses death to break the impasse... | |
 | Brian Fagan - Religion - 2006 - 318 pages
...exotic places, like Lord Byron's Greece and Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypt. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear...murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. BYRON1 Don Juan CHAPTER FOUR Greece Bespoiled he grand tour took the young and wealthy to Rome and... | |
 | John Marsh - Business & Economics - 2007 - 248 pages
...teach! From The American Teacher, April 1931. 3. From Lord Byron's Don Juan: "Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, /Where nothing save the waves and I,...murmurs sweep; / There, swan-like, let me sing and die" (Canto III, Stanza 86). Amos 'n Andy EHH Holman The scientist worked with his tubes and his tools;... | |
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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... 
