 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
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 1852 - 510 pages
...classical antiquity, " Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. The Scian and the Teian Muse. The hero's harp, the...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sire's islands of the blest." Never did bard sing more truly. Our boat is full... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...expire, And unavenged ? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! 33. DEGENERACY OF GREECE. — Lard Byron. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece !...the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoabus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - English poetry - 1853 - 182 pages
...[The linea of Lord Byron are printed, on account of the similarity of some passages in the Greek.] The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Bless'd.' THE ISLES OF GREECE. [This Ode obtained the... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - English poetry - 1853 - 168 pages
...[The lines of Lord Byron are printed, on account of the similarity of some passages in the Greek.] The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning...the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, ч Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...GBEECE. The following, which is called by Jeffrey a " glorious Ode," is from BYBON'S Don Jnan. THE Isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning...The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lovers lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - English poetry - 1853 - 168 pages
...[The lines of Lord Byron are printed, on account of the similarity of some passages in the Greek.] 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.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2. The Scian and Teian muse, The hero's heart, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores...refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds that echo further west, Than your sire's "Islands of the Blest." 3. The mountains look on + Marathon,... | |
 | Rev. H. Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., - 1854 - 262 pages
...streams and bees To cull dews (as) kisses while they shall exist. EXERCISE CXIV. in. ASCLEPIAD. i. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. n. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 804 pages
...seemed to realise all that the fancy of the poet bad figured of the abodes of the blessed : — " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set."-h The Turkish pachas never set their feet in these blessed abodes of industry and freedom. Secretly... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...oud Phoebus sprung' Eternal summer gilds them yet, But :ill, except their sun, is set. The Sc'uin nnd the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute,...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
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