 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1101821Full view - About this book
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 804 pages
...the fancy of the poet bad figured of the abodes of the blessed : — " 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."-h... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...concert, give one strain To my poor reed. THE ISLES OF GREECE. — Byron. 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...the Revolution, are still applicable. THE ISLES OF GREECE. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece 1 Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1854 - 244 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the art of war and peace. — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set., THE JEouAN SEA ! Loveliest of all waters, its bright surface almost seems conscious that it laves classic... | |
 | James Elishama Smith - History - 1854 - 670 pages
...began to perceive the decline of her attractions. The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! AYhere burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Deloa rose, and Phoebus sprung ! So sings Byron ; and young ladies exclaim, " How very beautiful !"... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1872 - 522 pages
...every stone breathes an epic, every running brook gurgles a poem, every mound unearths a sculptor, " Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set." It was in Greece that all means adapted to develop the body, and to train the mind to warlike enterprise,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 506 pages
...Europe, which had come to exceed £3,000,000 of riporn from Britain. " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where...gilds them yet. But all except their sun is set."* The Turkish pachas never set their feet in these blessed abodes of industry and freedom. Secretly afraid... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...concert, give one strain To my poor reed. THE ISLES OF GREECE. — Byron. 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...emphatically. 1. " Restore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 8. 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 Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is scl. —... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...affirm it, the eighth wonder of the world.1' 98. The Isles of Greece. 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.... | |
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