 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, 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 District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ... - Page 120by William Draper Swan - 1845 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | JOEL COOK - 1910 - 756 pages
...The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 4 THE MEDITERRANEAN Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos...summer gilds them yet; But all except their sun is set. Thus opens Lord Byron's Song of the Greek Poet. It was one of the products of his patriotic missionary... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...Sp and E, guerrilla. Gc, war, worse, worst. "War doesn't prove who is right, only who is left." The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
 | Gough Whitlam, Edward Gough Whitlam - Australia - 2002 - 368 pages
...Athens celebrating the XXV1H Olympiad in 2004. Few will accept the view expressed by Byron in 1819: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Most will accept the view expressed by Shelley in 1822: Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter... | |
 | Juan Valera - Fiction - 2002 - 186 pages
...hunting. Delos, a Greek island in the Cyclades and her birthplace, is sung by Byron in his Don Juan: "The isles of Greece! The isles of Greece! / Where burning...and peace, / Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung!" 31 Parabami: It seems safe to say that this is the Spanish—or in any event, Valera's—spelling of... | |
 | David Roessel - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 416 pages
...said Evelyn, "but I know you can't buck Lord Byron. He's the one who put it into immortal poetry. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning...war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. That's it you see. That's what all the Philhellenes are crazy for." (38-39) Lord Byron is that with... | |
 | Norman Beim - Drama - 2004 - 628 pages
...it. MARY goes off.) CLAIRE: Little hypocrite! BYRON: (Looking off into the distance HE recites.) "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace..." (HE writes.) And now it's off to war and the fight for freedom! On board ship we were like schoolboys... | |
 | S. G. Bayne - Travel - 2006 - 137 pages
...which we reached in two days. Lord Byron aptly describes it in his famous poem which opens with : "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set," ATHENS The Acropolis, or rocky mountain on which the celebrated group of buildings is found, was fortified... | |
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